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The original claim made in the introduction to this classic volume was that it broke fresh ground: that it set a new agenda for the philosophy of religion and was a reaction against a narrow conception of the discipline that had little to say philosophically about human experience, or subjectivity, or about the religious imagination, or the idea of 'spirituality'. In a new Foreword to the book, Michael McGhee reflects on how the discipline has changed or remained the same in the intervening twenty-five years since first publication. He argues that the connections between 'philosophy' and 'spirituality' are still developing; and that what we think of as 'religious' or 'spiritual' is shifting, along with ideas about self-knowledge. The book contains pertinent chapters by some of the leading thinkers in the field, including Rowan Williams, Janet Soskice, Fergus Kerr, Stephen Clark and Paul Williams, who offers a comparative piece on Tibetan Buddhism.

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  • One of the best introductions that there is to the relationship between philosophy and spirituality
  • Many of the writers involved are the leading thinkers of their generation: a stellar cast
  • The specially commissioned Foreword shows how the topic and the treatment here given of it remain deeply relevant to present circumstances
Author: McGhee Michael
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 438
ISBN: 9781009230216
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2024

Introduction Michael Mcghee
1. Philosophy and religion in the thought of Kierkegaard Michael Weston
2. De Consolatione Philosophiae John Haldane
3. The real or the real? Chardin or Rothko? Anthony O'hear
4. Love and attention Janet Martin Soskice
5. Descartes' debt to Augustine Stephen R. L. Clark
6. Visions of the self in Late Medieval Christianity: some cross-disciplinary reflections Sarah Coakley
7. Refined and crass supernaturalism T. L. S. Sprigge
8. Religious imagination Ronald W. Hepburn
9. Moral values as religious absolutes James P. Mackey
10. Revealing the scapegoat mechanism: Christianity after Girard Fergus Kerr
11. Philosophy vs. Mysticism: an Islamic controversy Oliver Leaman
12. Non-Conceptuality, critical reasoning and religious experience: some Tibetan Buddhist discussions Paul Williams
13. Know thyself': what kind of an injunction? Rowan Williams
14. Facing truths: ethics and the spiritual life Michael Mcghee.

Michael McGhee is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His latest book is Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

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