TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burley,Mikel
TI  - Contemplating Religious Forms of Life
SN  - 9781441136213
AV  - BL51 .B856 2012 
U1  - 210 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
KW  - Phillips, D. Z.
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy and religion
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part one: Wittgenstein; 1 Primitive religiosity; Cognitivism and non-cognitivism; Understanding ourselves?; A direction in which to look; 2 Absolute safety; The doctrine of moral harm; Temporal and eternal perspectives; A tendency in the human mind; Concluding remarks; 3 The possibility of honest religious thinking; An unresolved tension?; Religious pictures; Grammar and religious truth; Part two: D.Z. Phillips; 4 Beyond realism and non-realism; Attending to details; Neither realism nor non-realism; Truth; God; Concluding remarks; 5 Contemplating eternal lifeAgainst 'survival'; Eternal life and self-renunciation; Rejecting metaphysics; Retreating into naturalism?; Concluding remarks; 6 Philosophy of religion through literature; Where and who we are; Defective visions; Sacrifice; Concluding remarks; 7 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) made profound contributions to many areas of philosophy and cultural understanding, and his thought and methods have inspired numerous inquirers into the forms of our religious life. D.Z. Phillips (1934-2006) pioneered the application of Wittgenstein-influenced approaches to the philosophy of religion, and emphasized the contemplative, non-dogmatic nature of the philosophical task. In Contemplating Religious Forms of Life, Mikel Burley elucidates and critically examines the work of these two philosophers in relation to various aspects of religion, including rit
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