Schellenberg's evolutionary religion: how evolutionary and how religious?

Autor:	William A. Rottschaefer
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	060303 religions & theology Philosophy 060302 philosophy Religious studies Realization (linguistics) Darwinism 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Evolutionary theory Naturalism Epistemology
Zdroj:	Religious Studies. 52:475-496
ISSN:	1469-901X 0034-4125
DOI:	10.1017/s0034412516000111
Popis:	In Evolutionary Religion, J. L. Schellenberg synthesizes his previous impressive contributions to an understanding of religion by formulating an account of religion supported by a Darwinian evolutionary theory understood as a science of the deep future. Such a future enables the realization that our present understandings of religion are immature, that future understandings of divine reality may be radically altered and that religious practice may become the centre of human well-being. In this article, I argue that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion represents at best but half the evolutionary story, its epistemic side. Ontologically, it remains fundamentally non-evolutionary. Positively, I suggest naturalistic alternatives to Schellenberg's Ultimate. I conclude that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion is neither adequately evolutionary nor adequately religious.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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