Dimensions of Faith: Understanding Faith through the Lens of Science and Religion - Softcover

Donaldson, Steve

 
9780718894214: Dimensions of Faith: Understanding Faith through the Lens of Science and Religion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0718894219 ISBN 13: 9780718894214
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2015

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An examination of faith as a universal facet of human belief systems, showing how our cognitive limitations make faith not the enemy of reason but its partner. In Dimensions of Faith, cognitive scientist Steve Donaldson takes readers on a journey from the world of assumptions, set minds, widely varying beliefs, and popular misconceptions to an understanding of the true essence and role of faith as the natural and inevitable product of brains. Using numerous illustrations and examples, Donaldson shows how faith is necessitated by a variety of unavoidable limitations, exposes the myth of a divide between faith and critical thinking, provides practical advice for crafting coherent beliefs, and explains why there can never be such a place as "Factland". Along the way he takes a special look at religious faith - evaluating its attributes, exploring its relation to other manifestations of faith, investigating whether God has done his job well enough to warrant the faith placed in him, and pondering how truth seekers can sometimes end up in very different places.

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Verlag
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0718894219
ISBN 13 
9780718894214
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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