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13Religious Conflicts, Public Policy, and Moral Authority: Reflections on Christian Faith and Homosexual Rights in a Plural SocietyIn James Olthuis & Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (eds.), Towards an Ethics of Community: Negotiations of Difference in a Pluralist Society, Wilfrid Laurier Press. pp. 91-126. 2006.
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9Consequences of Liberalism: Ideological Domination in Rorty's Public/Private SplitIn James Olthuis & Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion (eds.), Towards an Ethics of Community: Negotiations of Difference in a Pluralist Society, Wilfrid Laurier Press. pp. 37-50. 2006.
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2Philosophy’s Prejudice Towards ReligionThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 36 93-99. 1998.Religion acquired a bad press in philosophical modernity after a rivalry developed between philosophy and theology, originating in philosophy’s adopting the role of our culture’s superjudge in all of morality and knowledge, and in faith’s coming to be seen as belief, that is, as assent to propositional content. Religion, no longer trust in the face of mystery, became a belief system. Reason as judge of propositional belief set up religion’s decline. But spirituality is on the rise, and favors tr…Read more
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8What happens in a conversation between a committed Atheist and a committed Christian? While agreeing to disagree on almost every detail, Kai Nielsen, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, and Hendrik Hart, Senior Member in Philosophy at the graduate Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, agree that it is not fruitless
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Understanding Our World: An Integral OntologyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 20 (1): 62-63. 1986.
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43Kai Nielsen’s Philosophy & AtheismPhilosophy and Theology 1 (4): 334-346. 1987.Kai Nielsen’s recent book Philosophy and Atheism is discussed here. The main point is that Nielsen’s arguments against Christianity can be turned against his own rationalist atheism with similar results, namely that the position seems incoherent from its own point of view. Christianity is unempirical and irrational by certain arguments, but the position assumed underneath those arguments does not survive treatment by those same arguments. Nielsen’s dependence on arguments that undermine the posi…Read more
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32Truth in Context (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 4 (1): 143-145. 2000.
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14Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff. Cambridge University Press, 1995. 326 pp (review)Philosophia Reformata 63 (2): 206-213. 1998.
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8Walking the Tightrope of Faith: Philosophical Conversations About Reason and Religion (edited book)Rodopi. 1999.Collected here for the first time are the responses of several prominent Canadian philosophers to Nielsen's outspoken work in the philosophy of religion, including their responses to Hart's criticisms of Nielsen. New replies by Hart and Nielsen to these added voices are also included.
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16American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 396American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 395-396. 2012.
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13Truth in Context (review)Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 4 (1): 143-145. 2000.
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21Liberalism, Pluralism, and Lived FaithPhilosophy and Theology 8 (2): 149-165. 1993.Liberalism is no longer defensible as a strategy for coping with conflicts in a pluralistic society, but is itself one of the pluralities in conflict. Hence its strategy for coping with plurality---tolerant suspension or privatization of the deep commitments that are the roots of conflict, coupled with rational discussion to form a public consensus not connected to the plurality of commitments---can no longer serve as a common sense approach for all citizens. In this paper I explore as a solutio…Read more
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4Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith and Community (edited book)Editions Rodopi. 2012.Since the time of the Enlightenment in Western Europe, discussions of faith and reason have often pitted the believer against the skeptic, the theist against the atheist, and the person of one faith against the person of no professed faith. But the relation of reason to faith has been a matter of debate among believers as well. There are those who hold that religious faith can be proven or supported by rational argument. Others say that to try to give reasons and arguments does violence to relig…Read more
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12In Defence of Open-Mindedness William Hare Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 121. $17.95, $8.95 paper (review)Dialogue 26 (2): 378-. 1987.
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1Commitment as a Foundation for Rational BeliefPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 2 879-884. 1988.
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1On the Distinction Between Creator and Creature: Discussion of a Central Theme in N. P. Wolterstorff's 'On Universals'Philosophia Reformata 44 (n/a): 183. 1979.
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31A Theme from the Philosophy of Herman DooyeweerdFaith and Philosophy 5 (3): 268-282. 1988.On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Herman Dooyeweerd’s New Critique of Theoretical Thought in 1985 and the 10th anniversary of his death in 1987, I explore his theory of theory. Dooyeweerd distinguished theory as conceptual knowledge of abstracted functions from everyday knowing as integrated knowledge of wholes. He tried to show that critical theorizing requires philosophical integration, self-awareness, and religious knowledge of the origin of ourselves and creation. In the course of d…Read more
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54Faith as Trust and Belief as Intellectual CredulityPhilosophy and Theology 8 (3): 251-256. 1994.In response to the critique of his work by William Sweet, Hendrik Hart first offers some terminological clarifications. The important difference between ‘faith’ (trust in God) and ‘belief’ (our network of accepted understandings of things, expressed in concepts and propositions) is emphasized and his use of terms such as ‘religion,’ ‘knowledge,’ and ‘truth’ are explained. Hart then clarifies his approach to the Western philosophical tradition. He argues that Christian accommodation to philosophy…Read more
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2Conceptual understanding and knowing other-wise: Reflections on rationality and spirituality in philosophyIn James H. Olthuis (ed.), Knowing other-wise: philosophy at the threshold of spirituality, Fordham University Press. pp. 19--53. 1997.Conceptual understanding and knowing other-wise: Reflections on rationality and spirituality in philosophy