The Realist Hope: A Critique of Anti-Realist Approaches in Contemporary Philosophical Theology

di Christopher J. Insole (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021

Taking into consideration analytical, continental, historical, post-modern and contemporary thinkers, Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris. Where truth is exhausted by our beliefs about truth, there is no conceptual space for doubting those beliefs; only a conception of truth as absolute, given and accessible can guarantee the very humility, sense of fallibility and sensitivity to difference that the anti-realist rightly values. Cutting through some of the tired and well-rehearsed debates in this area, Insole provides a fresh perspective on approaches influenced by Wittgenstein, Kant, and apophatic theology. The defence of realism offered is unusual in being both analytically precise, and theologically sensitive, with a view to some of the wider and less well-explored cultural, ethical and political implications of the debate.

• Autore: Christopher J. Insole
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion and Theology
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 326 gr.
• EAN: 9781032180120

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