The Philosopher's Playground: Understanding Scriptural Reasoning Through Modern Philosophy - Hardcover

Goodson, Jacob L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498286089 ISBN 13: 9781498286084

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Since its inception in 1994, scriptural reasoning has been practiced by academics and religious laypeople on an international scale. Scriptural reasoning is an activity or practice where Jews, Christians, and Muslims read and study together short passages from their traditionally sacred texts. In this book, Jacob L. Goodson describes this activity by giving a tour through modern philosophy and showing how certain arguments, ideas, and theories from modern philosophers help make sense of this inter-religious practice. According to Goodson, one of the most interesting aspects of the practice of scriptural reasoning concerns how its driven by a tension between pragmatism and semiotics--what he calls purposefulness (pragmatism) vs. playfulness (semiotics) throughout the book. Can inter-religious practices only be playful, in terms of an academic "leisure activity"? Or do inter-religious practices need to strive toward a greater end or even a higher purpose, such as peace-making among the Abrahamic faiths or inter-religious friendships? In each individual chapter, Goodson explores this tension within the practice of scriptural reasoning. Utilizing Immanuel Kant's deontology, Goodson concludes by demonstrating how the practice of scriptural reasoning might work if only two rules are in place while participating in it.

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Jacob L. Goodson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. Brad Elliott Stone is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Philip Rudolph Kuehnert is a retired Lutheran Pastor living on the sunrise side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He combined forty years of pastoral ministry with twenty-five years as a pastoral psychotherapist in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Fairbanks (Alaska) before retiring to Virginia.

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• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498286089
• ISBN 13: 9781498286084
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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