Religion within reason /

Religion within reason /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cahn, Steven M., author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Description:	x, 105 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Supernatural. Faith and reason. Religion and science. Faith and reason. Religion and science. Supernatural.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11309535

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ISBN:	9780231181600 0231181604 9780231181617 0231181612 9780231543668
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural deity. If supernaturalism is not reasonable, the argument goes, religion cannot be reasonable-or if supernaturalism is reasonable, religion must be as well. Are faith and reason, religion and science, doomed to a constant struggle for the heart of humanity? Steven M. Cahn believes that they are not, that even if God exists, religion may not be justified and that even if religion is justified, belief in God may not be. Cahn argues that the common understanding of the relationship between religion and supernaturalism is flawed and that while supernaturalism is not reasonable, religious commitment may well be. Writing not as a theist but as one who finds much to admire in a religious life, he examines faith and reason, miracles, heaven and hell, religious diversity, and the problem of evil, using a variety of examples taken from religious thought, literature, and popular culture. Lucidly written in a nonpolemical spirit, Religion Within Reason offers an exciting new approach to the reconciliation of science and religion.

Table of Contents:

Proving the existence of God?
Philosophical proofs and religious commitment
The problem of evil
The problem of goodness
The moriarty hypothesis
Dummy hypotheses
The appeal to faith
Skepticism about faith
The theodicy trap
The problem of meaning
Miracles
God without religion
Playing the odds
Why worship God?
Religions
Religion without God
Heaven and hell
Life without God
A religious life.