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Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

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Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) by Donald Wiebe
English | 1991 | ISBN: 077351015X | 276 Pages | PDF | 14 MB

In a careful re-evaluation of the works of Levy-Bruhl, Wiebe establishes the coherence of Levy-Bruhl's classic distinction between primitive, or mythopoeic, and scientific thought, maintaining that religious thinking is mythopoeic in nature while theology which thinks about religion is related to modern Western scientific thinking. The pre-Socratic philosophers, Wiebe shows, developed a form of rational thought radically different from the religious-mythopoeic thought that preceded it. Although Plato was concerned with recovery of the pre-philosophic wisdom of ancient Greece, he attempted this within a rational, philosophic structure. Wiebe argues that Christian thought, originally mythopoeic, changed rapidly under the influence of Hellenistic culture, and that the Platonization of Christianity introduced an element of philosophic thinking which would eventually undermine its mythopoeic essence. In clarifying the nature of religious thought and its relation to religion, Wiebe provides a sound basis for the development of a general theory of religion. While of particular interest to philosophers, theologians, and students and scholars of the study of religion, Wiebe's study draws upon sources as diverse as philosophy, history, anthropology, and sociology and will therefore interest anyone involved in these disciplines as well.


Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)