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9 - Agnostic Religion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2019

J. L. Schellenberg
Affiliation:
Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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You might think it an unfortunate thing that the idea of triple transcendence should receive a new lease on life just when we’re forced, by the same circumstances that provide it, to be agnostic about whether the idea is true. Even if the idea of transcendence gets a new lease on life, religion itself – and here we’re back to talking about robust, transcendence-friendly religion – apparently doesn’t. But notice what you’re assuming. You’re assuming that religion in an age of immaturity should have the same basic attitudes it’s always had. And that seems highly questionable. Sure, religion as we’ve seen it so far is full of detailed conviction and passionate belief. It’s tempting to suppose that this is how things have to be in the religious domain. Call this view believerism. But if there’s anything we’ve learned, it’s not to take religion as we’ve seen it so far to be representative of religion, period.

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Religion after Science
The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity
, pp. 102 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Agnostic Religion?
  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.010
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  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.010
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  • Agnostic Religion?
  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.010
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