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Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil
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Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil Hardcover - 2008

by Donald A. Crosby


From the publisher

In this book Donald A. Crosby looks at how a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil. Further developing and defending the vision of religious thought and life elaborated in his previous work, A Religion of Nature, Crosby explores how such a vision can enable us to interpret, respond to, and cope with the diverse forms of evil in the world, arguing that an ambiguity of goods and evils in human life, in nature as a whole, and in any conceivable or desirable realm of existence is inevitable. It is therefore futile to seek recourse in powers, presences, states, or realms thought to wholly transcend a combination of goods and evils or to be entirely devoid of evil. This being the case, the central problem of an adequate religious faith is how to live a constructive, meaningful life in the face of this intractable ambiguity. Religion of nature, as it is laid out and explained here, confronts this problem and offers a comprehensive, sustaining, and fully adequate way of conceiving and living a religious life.

Details

  • Title Living with Ambiguity: Religious Naturalism and the Menace of Evil
  • Author Donald A. Crosby
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 124
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 2008-08
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780791475195 / 0791475190
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Good and evil, Philosophical theology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007042266
  • Dewey Decimal Code 202.12

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2009, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/03/2008, Page 22

About the author

Donald A. Crosby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He has published several books, including A Religion of Nature and The Specter of the Absurd: Sources and Criticisms of Modern Nihilism, both also published by SUNY Press, and Novelty.