书目名称 | How Can We Know What God Means | 副标题 | The Interpretation o | 编辑 | Jorge J. E. Gracia | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | In spite of the growth of secularization, technology, and science, statistics tell us that religious conversions are on the rise, and the number of people who take religion and divine revelation seriously is at an all-time high. This phenomenon, curiously enough, has increased rather than decreased both inter and intra-religious conflicts: Protestants fight Catholics in Northern Ireland; Serbian Greek Orthodox fight with Kosovo Moslems in Yugoslavia; Jews fight with Moslems in Palestine; Hindus fight with Moslems in India - and the list is seemingly endless. There is bitter disagreement also in dealing with revelation, even within the same religious traditions and with regard to the same scriptures: Liberal Christians reject the literal interpretation of the Christian scriptures favored by Evangelicals; many Protestant groups do not accept the role of tradition in interpretation which Roman Catholics consider essential; Orthodox Jews strictly follow eating regulations presented in the Torah, but Reformed Jews take these in a different sense. The sources of these disagreements vary considerably. Some are rooted in historical events and traditions, but quite often they signal deep co | 出版日期 | Book 2001 | 关键词 | god; novel; religion; technology; theology; Tradition | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109216 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-312-24028-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-230-10921-6 | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001 |
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