Divine Teaching and the Way of the World: A Defense of Revealed Religion

by Samuel Fleischacker

Book Overview

Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called "revealed religion" religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacred, as wholly authoritative over one's life. At the same time, he maintains that revealed religions stand in danger of corruption or fanaticism unless they are combined with secular scientific practices and a secular morality. The first two parts of Divine Teaching and the Way of the World argue that the cognitive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019921736X
• ISBN13: 9780199217366
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"