Book contents
- Religion After Science
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Religion After Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The 10,000-Year Test
- 1 Development and the Divine
- 2 The End Is Not Near
- 3 Big Ambitions
- 4 A Poor Record
- 5 Verdict: Immature, Not Doomed
- 6 A New Path for Science and Religion
- 7 The New Agnosticism
- 8 Naturalism Tamed
- 9 Agnostic Religion?
- 10 The New Humanism
- Epilogue: The Religion Project
- Notes
- Index
4 - A Poor Record
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 August 2019
Book contents
- Religion After Science
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Religion After Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The 10,000-Year Test
- 1 Development and the Divine
- 2 The End Is Not Near
- 3 Big Ambitions
- 4 A Poor Record
- 5 Verdict: Immature, Not Doomed
- 6 A New Path for Science and Religion
- 7 The New Agnosticism
- 8 Naturalism Tamed
- 9 Agnostic Religion?
- 10 The New Humanism
- Epilogue: The Religion Project
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The religion project’s ambitions are huge. Check. A lot of experiencing and growing over a great deal of time could be required to achieve them. Check. So, humans have given a lot of care to this enterprise in the time we’ve had, and great seriousness, rigor, and diligence in religious intellectual investigation have become a conspicuous part of the human religious record, right? Uh, well … no. We can’t put a check mark there. The present chapter explores why.
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- Religion after ScienceThe Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity, pp. 38 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019