A Faith for the Future : Why Traditional Religion Is the Preferable Form of Evolutionary Religion
(2021) In European Journal for Philosophy of Religion- Abstract
- In the philosophy of J. L. Schellenberg, “evolutionary religion” is a religious stance oriented towards the deep future. According to Schellenberg, the best form of evolutionary religion is non-doxastic faith in ultimism. I reject Schellenberg’s arguments for preferring ultimism and suggest that committing non-doxastically to traditional religion makes more sense from an evolutionary perspective. I argue that the alignment argument for traditional religion remains sound even when the deep future is considered. Furthermore, I assess Schellenberg’s claim that humanity is religiously immature.
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- Palmqvist, Carl-Johan LU
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
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- in press
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- Evolutionary Religion, Non-Doxastic Religion, Faith, Ultimism, Schellenberg
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- European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
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- European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
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- 1689-8311
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- English
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