Questioning Assumptions

Informationen zum Autor Tom Christenson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Christenson has over thirty years of college and university teaching experience and teaches courses in philosophy of religion annually. He is the author of Wonder and Critical Reflection: An Invitation to Philosophy (2003) and The Gift and Task of Lutheran Higher Education (Fortress, 2004), in addition to several published essays and articles. Klappentext Tom Christenson dares to turn philosophy inside out in this remarkable new book. Starting with the ongoing public debate over Gods existence, he approaches traditional arguments in philosophy of religion and peels back their veneers to uncover the questionable assumptions underlying each. This valuable, brief book drives the reader to reconsider how to think about the most fundamental questions which surround the matter of faith and religious belief. For Christenson, there are three key assumptions which need unpacking: that believing is the focal act of faith; that the basic religious question is about the existence of God; and that religious language is primarily referential.

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Tom Christenson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Faith and Learning at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Christenson has over thirty years of college and university teaching experience and teaches courses in philosophy of religion annually. He is the author of Wonder and Critical Reflection: An Invitation to Philosophy (2003) and The Gift and Task of Lutheran Higher Education (Fortress, 2004), in addition to several published essays and articles.

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Tom Christenson dares to turn philosophy inside out in this remarkable new book. Starting with the ongoing public debate over Gods existence, he approaches traditional arguments in philosophy of religion and peels back their veneers to uncover the questionable assumptions underlying each. This valuable, brief book drives the reader to reconsider how to think about the most fundamental questions which surround the matter of faith and religious belief. For Christenson, there are three key assumptions which need unpacking: that believing is the focal act of faith; that the basic religious question is about the existence of God; and that religious language is primarily referential.