Reason and the Radical Crisis of Faith

By Shabbir Akhtar

Is belief in the Christian God intellectually defensible? Is it even morally necessary? In this book, Dr. Shabbir Akhtar, himself a Muslim, examines and rejects one fideist and two reductionist defences of the rationality of Christian conviction in modern industrial society. He identifies another defensive position - theological revisionism - which has recently gained popularity with secularized Christian thinkers. Rejecting this as merely a conservative version of reductionism, he emphasizes the need for reviving the tradition of natural theology and, in doing so, a religious vision of the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820404519
• ISBN13: 9780820404516
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.