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Title: | Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment: Acts of Assent | Contributor(s): | Forrest, Peter (author) | Publication Date: | 2019-07-25 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27823 | Abstract: | This book is a defence of commitment by those of us who have sceptical doubts, especially about religion, and who have lost their epistemic innocence as a result. My personal motivation is the loss of epistemic innocence among Roman Catholics, due to the manifest unholiness of the Church. That so many of its clergy were paedophiles is bad enough; that so many bishops sought to cover this up is a scandal egregious even for a scandal-prone organization. The Nicene Creed invites us to believe in the 'One, Holy, Apostolic and Universal Church'. How can we? We often describe this loss of epistemic innocence as loss of faith, but it is not so much loss of faith as loss of any purely passive, easy faith. So much for my motivation: my intended audience consists of all who, for whatever reason, have either lost or never had epistemic innocence on various disputed questions. I shall defend commitment and invite them to commit. | Publication Type: | Book | Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic | Place of Publication: | London, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781350097711 1350097713 9781350097735 9781350097728 1350097721 |
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: | 220315 Philosophy of Religion | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 500316 Philosophy of religion | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies | HERDC Category Description: | A1 Authored Book - Scholarly | Publisher/associated links: | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/intellectual-humanist-and-religious-commitment-9781350097711/ | WorldCat record: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1103947142 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112669378 |
Extent of Pages: | 208 |
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Appears in Collections: | Book School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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