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How rational is rational theology? A reply to Mikael Stenmark
Ist Teil von
Religious studies, 1999-03, Vol.35 (1), p.89-97
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1999
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In this response to Stenmark's critique of my views on rational
theology,
I concentrate on his distinction between the epistemic and the practical
goals of
religion and between descriptive and normative rational theology. With
regard to
the first distinction, I grant that truth claims play an essential role
in religious belief
and that it is indeed the task of philosophy of religion to decide on the
meaning and
rationality of such claims. I argue, however, that since such claims are
internally
related to the practical context of religious belief, their meaning and
rationality
cannot be determined apart from this context as is done in the kind of
rational
theology which Stenmark calls ‘scientific’.
With regard to the second distinction, I
reject Stenmark's view that philosophy of religion has a descriptive
task with
reference to religion, and hence also his claim that I have put forward
a false
description of ‘the religious language game’.