Hugo Strandberg

Love of a God of Love (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Transformation of the Philosophy of Religion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Traditionally, religious belief has in the philosophy of religion been understood along more or less epistemological lines. Love of a God of Love develops another understanding of belief, where the moral concept of love is central. In this context, what is distinctive about the concept of love is that it is both the "what" and the "how" of belief: for the one who loves a God of love, the concept of love characterizes both the content side and the act side of the belief. In that respect, this understanding of religious belief makes it possible to avoid certain formalist difficulties, arising when the "what" and the "how" of belief are sharply distinguished.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441186973
• Artikelnr.: 48422649

Autorenporträt

Dr. Hugo Strandberg is Lecturer in the

Department of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

His previous publications are Escaping My Responsibility: Investigations into the Nature of Morality

(Peter Lang, 2009) and The Possibility of Discussion: Relativism, Truth and
Criticism of Religious Beliefs (Ashgate, 2006).