In his most recent work, the contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton has turned his attention to religion. Although a religious sensibility ties together his astonishingly prodigious and dynamic output as
a philosopher, poet and composer, his recent exploration of religious and theological themes from a philosophical point of view has excited a fresh response from scholars. This collection of writings addresses Scruton's challenging and subtle philosophy of religion for the first time.
The volume includes contributions from those who specialize in the philosophy of religion, the history of thought and culture, aesthetics, and church history. The collection is introduced by Mark Dooley, author of two books on Scruton, and includes a response to the writings from Scruton himself in which he develops his idea of the sacred and the erotic and defends the integrity of his work as an attempt to give a sense of the Lebenswelt (or 'lifeworld'): how humans experience the world. He argues that religion emerges from that experience and transforms us from beings bound by causal necessity into persons who acknowledge freedom, obligation and right.
A unique and fascinating collection of writings that sheds light on this hitherto unexplored aspect of Roger Scruton's philosophy.
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The Religious Philosophy of Roger Scruton
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations of Scruton’s works
- Editor’s Preface
- Introduction: Saving the Sacred
- Part 1: What Is the Sacred? Some Philosophical and Theological Responses
- Part 2: Recalling the Sacred: Philosophical and Theological Sources
- Part 3: Sensing the Sacred: Aesthetics, Art and Religion
- Part 4: Conserving the Sacred: Common Law, Conservatism and Conservation
- Part 5: The Sacred and the Secular: Charles Taylor and Roger Scruton in Conversation
- Epilogue: No Through Road
- Index
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