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Title Religions challenged by contingency : theological and philosophical approaches to the problem of contingency / edited by Dirk-Martin Grube, Peter Jonkers
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages)
Series Studies in theology and religion, 1566-208X ; v. 12
Studies in theology and religion ; v. 12.
Contents pt. 1. Historical case-studies in religions and contingency : classical philosophy -- pt. 2. Historical case-studies in religion and contingency : modern philosophy -- pt. 3. Religion and contingency : systematic approaches
Summary In this volume, the relationship between religion and contingency is investigated. Its historical part comprises analyses of important philosophers' interpretations of this relationship, viz. that of Leibniz, Kant, Lessing, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Its systematic part analyses how this relationship should be currently (re- )interpreted. The upshot of the different interpretations is a re-evaluation of the traditional assumption that accepting contingency is detrimental to the pursuit of religion. It is shown that a number of the philosophers scrutinized are not as critical regarding the acceptan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Contingency (Philosophy)
Religion -- Philosophy.
RELIGION -- Philosophy.
Contingency (Philosophy)
Religion -- Philosophy
Theologie
Philosophie
Kontingenz
Form Electronic book
Author Grube, Dirk-Martin
Jonkers, Peter, 1954-
ISBN 9789047433583
9047433580