A Faith for the Future: Why Non-doxastic Traditional Religion is the Preferable Form of Evolutionary Religion
In the philosophy of J. L. Schellenberg, "evolutionary religion" is a religious stance oriented towards the deep future. According to Schellenberg, the best form of evolutionary religion is non-doxastic faith in ultimism. I reject Schellenberg’s arguments for preferring ultimism and sugges...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue - The Future of Philosophy of Religion" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
2022
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-122 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sceptical Religion
B Non-Doxasticism B Schellenberg B Agnosticism B Evolutionary religion |
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| Summary: | In the philosophy of J. L. Schellenberg, "evolutionary religion" is a religious stance oriented towards the deep future. According to Schellenberg, the best form of evolutionary religion is non-doxastic faith in ultimism. I reject Schellenberg’s arguments for preferring ultimism and suggest that committing non-doxastically to traditional religion makes more sense from an evolutionary perspective. I argue that the alignment argument for traditional religion remains sound even when the deep future is considered. Furthermore, I assess Schellenberg's claim that humanity is religiously immature. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3677 |