Our purpose here is to explore the nature of religion as defined and developed in the humanistic tradition wherein there is no biblical concept of God but there is a concept of religion with special reference to Julian Huxley. Of particular interest is the prospects of a "non-theistic spirituality," or, a spirituality "in the absence of God." The presuppositional apologetics school of hermeneutics suggests that "all argumentation with presupposition is circular," thus, so long as we define our terms carefully and with intentional presuppositions, we should end up proving ourselves to be right. This is the case with religious fundamentalists, so why shouldn't it be the case with rational scientifically-minded humanists as well? We will explore, then, the possible meaning of the word "religion" when it does not imply a "personal" God and we will also explore the range of definitions of "God" which might allow for a post-biblical religion and a non-biblical god. Why bother?, it might be asked, and that will be another challenge in the book to demonstrate that the use of "religious" language in a "godless" world may or may not make sense.
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John H. Morgan, Ph.D. (Hartford), D.Sc. (C.A.S./London), Psy.D. (Foundation House/ Oxford), is The Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of Social Sciences at the Graduate Theological Foundation where he has also been President since 1982. Since 1998, he has been teaching in the international summer program of Oxford University where he was appointed to the program's Board of Studies in 1995. He has held postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and has been a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame and has also held three postdoctoral appointments at the University of Chicago. He also holds a joint faculty appointment at Cloverdale College as The Sir Julian Huxley Professor of the History and Philosophy of Education. The author of over thirty books and scores of scholarly articles, his latest books include Being Human: Perspectives in Meaning and Interpretation (Essays in Religion, Culture, and Personality), 2003; The P.R.I.M.E. Factor: A Radical Philosophy of Collaborative Education, 2004; and Naturally Good: The Behavioral History of Moral Development (from Charles Darwin to E. O. Wilson), 2005.
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This review is from: In the Absence of God: Religious Humanism as Spiritual Journey with special reference to Julian Huxley (Paperback)
The title suggests that it covers Religious Humanism with an emphasis on Julian Huxley when in fact it is about Julian Huxley with an emphasis on his own formulation of Religious Humanism. If you have already read some of the original writings of Julian Huxley and you liked what you read, you will enjoy this book.
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