The Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism
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Publication Year
1997
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262
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What could it mean to be religious in a world where religion no longer retains its former authority? Posing this question for his fellow Western intellectuals who inhabit just such a world, James C. Edwards investigates the loss of religion's traditional power in a culture characterized by what he calls "normal nihilism"—a situation in which one's commitment to a particular set of values is all one really has, and in which traditional religion is only a means of interpretation used to preserve what one most cares about. Recognizing the important historical role of religion in making us the people we are, he seeks to establish a viable understanding of religion without traditional beliefs and within the context of contemporary skepticism. The Plain Sense of Things is a book more interested in the power of religion that in its truth and in what happens to that power when the claims to truth slacken their grip. - from Amzon
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1
Library | Accession No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 1141 | BD573 .E38 1997 | 1 | Yes |