The pure theory of religion / Miles Hollingworth.
| Author/creator | Hollingworth, Miles author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | 249 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Lund Lecture -- On the true version of an event -- Kelsen, positivism, and the argument from history -- Testimony -- The Moriarty Complex -- Language and literature -- Predestination and theories of society -- The Coriolis Effect and questions on existence -- Augustine and codes of life. |
| Abstract | ""What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?" This book develops a "pure theory" of religion comparable to the pure theory of mathematics. It does so by focusing on the miracle of Christ's Resurrection from the dead on the Third Day; either outright and explicitly, or implicitly, in reflections and thought experiments made with historical thinkers, like Saint Augustine of Hippo and Ludwig Wittgenstein, for whom this miracle was central and true. Miles Hollingworth first sketched out the possibility of such a pure theory of religion in a special lecture delivered to the European Academy on Religion & Society, in Lund, Sweden. That was some years ago, and the lecture was controversial. This book presents that pure theory of religion in full, as well as the full text of the original lecture for the first time in print"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Hollingworth, Miles Pure theory of religion 1 New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197563793 |
| LCCN | 2025016971 |
| ISBN | 9780197563762 |
| ISBN | 0197563767 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
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