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oapen-20.500.12657-857812023-12-06T02:26:17Z Denken over geloven Drees, Willem philosophy of religion, Leiden University, separation of church and state in the Netherlands, liberal Protestantism, religious modernism bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Continental Europe::1DDN Netherlands bic Book Industry Communication::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic & Scandinavian languages::2ACD Dutch bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JH c 1800 to c 1900 bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3J Modern period, c 1500 onwards::3JM 21st century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRC Christianity::HRCM Christian theology bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science How to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on academic thinking about faith, Willem B. Drees, Leiden University's last professor of philosophy of religion, reads the work of his predecessors. They were mostly modernists, who expected to find their footing in the use of reason, in historical knowledge about religions, or in personal faith. After World War I, faith is perceived more as a wager, to trust that life is meaningful. Later, we see agnostic reticence that is religiously motivated, because God is always greater than we think, a mystery. And scholarly reticence, because in academic terms nothing definitive can be said about God. Do we thus see a development from modern certitude to charged silence? 2023-12-05T11:10:48Z 2023-12-05T11:10:48Z 2023 book 9789464561982 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85781 dut application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789464561999_OA-1.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789464561982 10.5117/9789464561982 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a f1d7f537-10c0-4ec5-b27c-18255398cb6a 9789464561982 232 Amsterdam Universiteit van Tilburg Tilburg University open access
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How to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on academic thinking about faith, Willem B. Drees, Leiden University's last professor of philosophy of religion, reads the work of his predecessors. They were mostly modernists, who expected to find their footing in the use of reason, in historical knowledge about religions, or in personal faith. After World War I, faith is perceived more as a wager, to trust that life is meaningful. Later, we see agnostic reticence that is religiously motivated, because God is always greater than we think, a mystery. And scholarly reticence, because in academic terms nothing definitive can be said about God. Do we thus see a development from modern certitude to charged silence?
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