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RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE - JAMES KELLENBERGER GEBUNDEN

This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion  particularly within
Christianity. The book begins by examining the difference between the general concepts of
knowledge and belief  the relation between faith and knowledge  and reasons why belief as faith
and not knowledge  is central to the Abrahamic religions.The book explores the ambivalence
about religious knowledge within Christianity. Some religious thinkers explicitly accepted and
sought religious knowledge  as did St. Thomas Aquinas  while others  notably Søren Kierkegaard
cast knowledge and seeking it as incompatible with faith. The book also examines two
antithetical religious intuitions about knowledge  both at home in the Christian tradition. For
one  faith requires a struggle with doubt. For the other  faith requires a certainty that
excludes doubt. For the first  religious knowledge would destroy faith. For the second 
religious knowledge is compatible with faith and completes it.Though the book focuses on the
Christian tradition  it also considers other traditions  including a chapter on the place of
religious knowledge in nontheistic religious traditions. The final chapter examines how coming
to Wisdom as personified in the Jewish and Christian traditions may be distinct from attaining
religious knowledge.

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