Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27823
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
Appears in Collections:Book
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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