Monotheism and tolerance : recovering a religion of reason / Robert Erlewine.

Author
Erlewine, Robert [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Description
x, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Indiana series in the philosophy of religion [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewine looks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. Drawing on Enlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and Hermann Cohen, who placed Christianity and Judaism in tension with tolerance and pluralism, Erlewine finds a way to break the impasse, soften hostilities, and establish equal relationships with the Other." "Erlewine's recovery of a religion of reason stands in contrast both to secularist critics of religion who reject religion for the sake of reason and to contemporary religious conservatives who eschew reason for the sake of religion. Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence." --Book Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Overcoming the current crisis
    • Monotheism, tolerance, and pluralism : the current impasse
    • Learning from the past : introducing the thinkers of the religion of reason
    • Mendelssohn : idolatry and indiscernability
    • Mendelssohn and the repudiation of divine tyranny
    • Monotheism and the indiscernible other
    • Kant : religious tolerance
    • Radical evil and the mire of unsocial sociability
    • Kant and the religion of tolerance
    • Cohen : ethical intolerance
    • Cohen and the monotheism of correlation
    • Rational supererogation, and the suffering servant
    • Conclusion: Revelation, reason, and the legacy of the Enlightenment.
    ISBN
    • 9780253354198 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0253354196 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780253221568 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0253221560 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2009028609
    OCLC
    313659167
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