The Faith of an Ex-Agnostic
Having made the moral commitment to a belief in God, I had then to satisfy the demands of intellect for a credible philosophical basis for such a belief. I had to reconcile my scientific caution to the necessity of living by the truth of the unprovable. I had to change the habitual naturalistic assumptions of my thinking. And finally I had to restate religious ideas in terms meaningful to me before I could return with appreciation to the traditional Christian language.
This essay, then, is an attempt to set down the main results of my search for a meaningful philosophy of religion. Philosophy is more afterthought than agent in conversion to religious belief. Nevertheless, an inadequate philosophy can be a tragic stumbling-block to those who are seeking or those who could seek the primary religious experience. Those who cannot believe that there is a pearl of great price will not seek it, or recognize it if perchance they come upon it. Hence I offer this philosophical essay in the hope that it may help some troubled seekers to a view of the nature of things that will encourage rather than deter their seeking.
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This essay, then, is an attempt to set down the main results of my search for a meaningful philosophy of religion. Philosophy is more afterthought than agent in conversion to religious belief. Nevertheless, an inadequate philosophy can be a tragic stumbling-block to those who are seeking or those who could seek the primary religious experience. Those who cannot believe that there is a pearl of great price will not seek it, or recognize it if perchance they come upon it. Hence I offer this philosophical essay in the hope that it may help some troubled seekers to a view of the nature of things that will encourage rather than deter their seeking.
The Faith of an Ex-Agnostic
Having made the moral commitment to a belief in God, I had then to satisfy the demands of intellect for a credible philosophical basis for such a belief. I had to reconcile my scientific caution to the necessity of living by the truth of the unprovable. I had to change the habitual naturalistic assumptions of my thinking. And finally I had to restate religious ideas in terms meaningful to me before I could return with appreciation to the traditional Christian language.
This essay, then, is an attempt to set down the main results of my search for a meaningful philosophy of religion. Philosophy is more afterthought than agent in conversion to religious belief. Nevertheless, an inadequate philosophy can be a tragic stumbling-block to those who are seeking or those who could seek the primary religious experience. Those who cannot believe that there is a pearl of great price will not seek it, or recognize it if perchance they come upon it. Hence I offer this philosophical essay in the hope that it may help some troubled seekers to a view of the nature of things that will encourage rather than deter their seeking.
This essay, then, is an attempt to set down the main results of my search for a meaningful philosophy of religion. Philosophy is more afterthought than agent in conversion to religious belief. Nevertheless, an inadequate philosophy can be a tragic stumbling-block to those who are seeking or those who could seek the primary religious experience. Those who cannot believe that there is a pearl of great price will not seek it, or recognize it if perchance they come upon it. Hence I offer this philosophical essay in the hope that it may help some troubled seekers to a view of the nature of things that will encourage rather than deter their seeking.
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| BN ID: | 2940158700293 |
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| Publisher: | Pendle Hill Publications |
| Publication date: | 06/28/2017 |
| Series: | Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #46 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 93 KB |
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