Philosophy of Religion

Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

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2. The Meaning of Religious Beliefs

Sergio Sorrentino and Dr. Ulf Zackariasson. The Society was founded in with the aim to arrange regular biennial European conferences on the philosophy of religion. These conferences are intended to further the study of the philosophy of religion and the cooperation between philosophers of religion in Europe.

However, from the very beginning, philosophers of religion who were not members of these organizations, also from outside Europe, were always welcome. At the 9th conference in Aarhus, it was decided to have official statutes drawn up for the Society and to have the Society officially registered as such. Included below is a copy of the official statutes of the Society as these are entered in the Register of Societies at the Utrecht Chamber of Commerce [Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken], as well as an English translation for use in the Society.

If you want to be on the Mailing-list of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion you can register with this formula, which will be send to the secretary of Prof. Article 1 1. The name of the society is the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. The Society is registered in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Society is founded for an unlimited period of time. Article 2 1.

The aim of the society is to promote the study of the Philosophy of Religion in Europe and to undertake actions which directly or indirectly further or have a bearing on this aim. The location of these conferences will rotate between various European geographical Areas including at least: a the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, b the Benelux, c German speaking countries, d Nordic and Baltic region, e Central and Eastern Europe, and f Mediterranean region. Article 3 The Society year consists of two consecutive calender years. The first Society year started on the first of September nineteen hundred and seventy six and ended on the thirty first of December nineteen hundred and seventy eight.

Article 4 1.

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Members are appointed by the Board, to whom applications for membership should be submitted. The Board keeps a register of the names and addresses of all members. Members are required to inform their representative on the Board directly of any change in address. Article 5 Members are required to pay a biennial membership fee as determined by the General Meeting of the Society.

Article 6 1. Membership is terminated by: 1. The death of the member; 2. Cancelation of membership by the member; 3. Cancelation of membership by the society; 4. Expulsion from the Society. Nonpayment of membership fee within six months after the end of the society year. Cancelation of membership and expulsion from the Society occur in accordance with Dutch law. Article 7 The Board of the Society consist of at least four and not more than six members elected by the General Meeting of the Society from among its members.

Each of the geographical areas mentioned in article 2. The member in whose area the next biennial conference is to be held, will act as President of the Society.

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Publication Date: 16 Oct Volume 3. Publication Date: 08 Jan Editor s : Martin Repp. Publication Date: 19 Mar Therefore, only by thinking seriously about culture Philosophy of Culture can we think seriously about religion Philosophy of Religion —and vice versa. Confronted the void, the abyss of existence, we respond by creative functions of the human spirit.

Yet it is only via theology that we can understand these as expressing a justification of the human spirit that does not become idolatry. For I would argue that theology is a response to the void that seeks to make life meaningful for others. It draws on a tradition in which the individual is called upon to act for others in the name of love: love expressed as the excess and limit of possibility; Love that is expressed also as crisis and KRISIS.

Conversely, a response to the void that only makes or only seeks to make life meaningful for me is theologically an act of idolatry and anti-human in intent. A re-thought Philosophy of Religion exists as the critical engagement with culture whereby what is created and presented as ultimate concern is held up to hermeneutical engagement in light of the tradition from which the culture and religion arise. Culture likewise is rethought as that which gives rise—in various creative expressions—to that determined through hermeneutical engagement and KRISIS to be ultimate concern.

In all of this therefore, the future of the Philosophy of Religion occurs as the politics of what I term a radical secular theology: seeking to ask questions of and critique ultimate concern in and for this world of shared human experience in the name of the excess and limit of possibility arising from an emancipatory hermeneutics of tradition and culture.

How we might approach this via Tillich proceeds from some insights from his Systematic Theology 1. Or, as I would secularize this: in and through every preliminary concern the ultimate concern is able to be possibly interpreted and responded to. Tillich, a : p. What makes such a secular theology radical is that such a theology occurs as hermeneutical event out of the tradition yet also after the abyss of the void of the death of God that institutes modernity.

That is, what can the name God mean as hermeneutical critique, event and thought in the world of shared human experience to act as crisis and KRISIS to make modernity bearable for others? Tillich, b : p. Similarly, we remember—via Eliot—that culture arises from the traditions formed by faith and now secularized. In considering how to proceed, it is useful to draw upon contemporary radical theology. We can also note similarities with Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School that Tillich found much in common with.

In contemporary Modernity, theology, once vanquished, and religion, once segregated by the Enlightenment, are both being reemployed by critical theory because of their value as self-reflexive, critical tools.

The future for such a Philosophy of Religion as I am outlining also occurs because, as critical theorist Helmet Peukert declares, both Enlightenment and theology are unfinished projects in that both are continually to having to self-reflexively prove themselves anew as critical endeavors. Peukert: p. Therefore, how we think critically in modernity is the basis of how we choose to act for others.

This is the future for the Philosophy of Religion and, as discussed, it occurs in a critical hermeneutics with Philosophy of Culture; that is, philosophy undertaken for others to make modernity bearable. The challenge from this for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture is clear. For theology in modernity had to become a problem unto itself and for everything else: a crisis and KRISIS of its own thinking and articulation to ensure it retained its necessity and could not be consigned to irrelevance.

So, let me try and put it this way. Theology, if it seeks a meaningful engagement with the world of shared human experience the saeculum , is where and whereby we become aware of and critique what secularity and religion prefer not to think. As such, it is theology from which we stand—with Tillich—on the boundary between secularity and religion, between religion and culture.

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The future for Philosophy of Religion as I envisage it via Tillich is also in line with this option arising from Harvey. Yet both secular theology and a radically secular Philosophy of Religion are yet to find homes in either religious studies or philosophy. This is not to say that there are not religious studies departments and philosophy programmes where such thinking is both taught and written. But they are few in number.

What is interesting is how much of such thinking occurs from individuals located in various disciplines and departments neither labeled religious studies nor philosophy and who yet manage to write—and surprisingly often if somewhat subversively teach such thinking. Usually such departments are engaged in the critical study of culture in some way and these thinkers—often without even knowing they are doing so—are engaging in the critical hermeneutic of religion and culture argued for in this paper. Therefore, in many ways the future of Philosophy of Religion is already being undertaken, but we have to increasingly look outside of the expected places and voices to find it.

Written in , Prior was a theologian, who at this time was in transition to becoming a philosopher and in particular, a noted logician.

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The reader can make his own list. The Foundation of Universalism , trans. Jennings, Jr. On Justice. It is noted that the re-turn to Paul extends beyond Romans and that this re-turn has become an ever-expanding sub-field in both Continental thought and political theology.

This is important because this emphasizes its difference from our common English usage of crisis. Barth K [orig. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Busch E Karl Barth: his life from letters and autobiographical texts. SCM press, London. Caws MA Manifesto: a century of isms.

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