9 Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. The First Premise: Realism 3
6. The Second Premise: Reasonableness 13
7. The Third Premise: The Impact of Morality on the Dynamic of Knowing 24
8. The Religious Sense: The Starting Point 35
9. The Religious Sense: Its Nature 46
10. Unreasonable Positions before the Ultimate Question: Emptying the Question 60
11. Unreasonable Positions before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question 72
12. Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions before the Ultimate Question 83
13. Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense 98
14. How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense 105
15. The Experience of the Sign 115
16. The Adventure of Interpretation 125
17. An Education in Freedom 130
18. Reason’s Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown 138
19. The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions for Its Acceptability 147
20. Notes 153
21. Subject Index 165
22. Author Index 175
23. Permissions 177