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| ISBN: | 9781107322042
1107322049
9780511621260
0511621264
0521862663
9780521862660
0521681146
9780521681148
1139810561
9781139810562
1107316650
9781107316652
1107317614
9781107317611
1299318878
9781299318878
1107315697
9781107315693
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-264) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "How can the world's religious traditions debate within the public sphere? In this book Nicholas Adams shows the importance of Habermas' approaches to this question. The full range of Habermas' work is considered, with detailed commentary on the more difficult texts. Adams energetically rebuts some of Habermas' arguments, particularly those which postulate the irrationality or stability of religious thought. Members of different religious traditions need to understand their own ethical positions as part of a process of development involving ongoing disagreements, rather than a stable unchanging morality. Public debate additionally requires learning each other's patterns of disagreement. Adams argues that, rather than suspending their deep reasoning to facilitate debate, as Habermas suggests, religious traditions must make their reasoning public, and that 'scriptural reasoning' is a possible model for this. Habermas overestimates the stability of religious traditions. This book offers a more realistic assessment of the difficulties and opportunities they face."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Adams, Nicholas, 1970- Habermas and theology. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521862663
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| Standard no.: | 9780521862660
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