Publication Date:
2024-03-23
Description:
How to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on academic thinking about faith, Willem B. Drees, Leiden University's last professor of philosophy of religion, reads the work of his predecessors. They were mostly modernists, who expected to find their footing in the use of reason, in historical knowledge about religions, or in personal faith. After World War I, faith is perceived more as a wager, to trust that life is meaningful. Later, we see agnostic reticence that is religiously motivated, because God is always greater than we think, a mystery. And scholarly reticence, because in academic terms nothing definitive can be said about God. Do we thus see a development from modern certitude to charged silence?
Keywords:
philosophy of religion, Leiden University, separation of church and state in the Netherlands, liberal Protestantism, religious modernism
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thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands
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thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACD Dutch
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVG Theology
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thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
Language:
Dutch
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image/jpeg
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