Det är så mycket tjafs och pladder om olika religioner. Inte många vet vad de pratar om. Gitter folk inte fördjupa sig i något ämne numera? Tror man att Wikipedia ger hela sanningen? Tror man att visdomen är ett par klick borta? Då tror man fel. Jag vill råda alla som tänker uttala sig om religion eller religionsfilosofi att först läsa på en aning. Man kan t.ex. börja med en bok som John Hicks "Philosophy of religion" (från 1963).
Jag läste den som kurslitteratur i min ungdom, d.v.s. i början av 70-talet. Då var jag ateist. Det är jag inte nu.
Citat!
"When humans call God good, they mean that his existence and activity constitute the condition of man's highest good. The presupposition of such a belief is that God has made human nature in such a way that man's highest good is to be found in relation to God." (s. 12)
"It has been suggested that we may speak of 'a-logical' probabilities, and may claim that in a sense which operates in everyday commonsense judgments although it is not capable of being mathematically formulated, it is more likely or probable that there is than that there is not a God." (s. 30)
"(...) in the Jewish and Christian conception, death is something real and fearful. It is not thought to be like walking from one room to another, or taking off an old coat and putting on a new one. It means sheer unqualified extinction - passing out from the lighted circle of life into 'death's dateless night'. Only through the sovereign creative love of God can there be a new existence beyond the grave." (s. 51)
"Christian thought contains two very different understandings of the nature of revelation and, as a result, two different conceptions of faith (as man's reception of revelation), of the Bible (as a medium of revelation), and of theology (as discourse based upon revelation). (...) the 'propositional' conception of revelation. According to this view, the content of revelation is a body of truths expressed in statements or propositions. Revelation is the imparting to man of divinely authenticated truths." (s. 61)
"Corresponding to this conception of revelation is a view of faith as man's obedient acceptance of these divinely revealed truths. (...) Faith is the Catholic's response to an intellectual message communicated by God.'" (s. 62)
"(...) with Tillich's formula, one can either define faith in terms of God, as man's concern about the Ultimate, or define God in terms of faith, as that - whatever it may be - about which man is ultimately concerned." (s. 69)
"God, according to the Judaic-Christian tradition, is the source and ground of our being. It is by his will that we exist. (...) To become conscious of him is to see oneself as a created, dependent creature receiving life and well-being from a higher source." (s. 70f)
"It has been suggested that we may speak of 'a-logical' probabilities, and may claim that in a sense which operates in everyday commonsense judgments although it is not capable of being mathematically formulated, it is more likely or probable that there is than that there is not a God." (s. 30)
"(...) in the Jewish and Christian conception, death is something real and fearful. It is not thought to be like walking from one room to another, or taking off an old coat and putting on a new one. It means sheer unqualified extinction - passing out from the lighted circle of life into 'death's dateless night'. Only through the sovereign creative love of God can there be a new existence beyond the grave." (s. 51)
"Christian thought contains two very different understandings of the nature of revelation and, as a result, two different conceptions of faith (as man's reception of revelation), of the Bible (as a medium of revelation), and of theology (as discourse based upon revelation). (...) the 'propositional' conception of revelation. According to this view, the content of revelation is a body of truths expressed in statements or propositions. Revelation is the imparting to man of divinely authenticated truths." (s. 61)
"Corresponding to this conception of revelation is a view of faith as man's obedient acceptance of these divinely revealed truths. (...) Faith is the Catholic's response to an intellectual message communicated by God.'" (s. 62)
"(...) with Tillich's formula, one can either define faith in terms of God, as man's concern about the Ultimate, or define God in terms of faith, as that - whatever it may be - about which man is ultimately concerned." (s. 69)
"God, according to the Judaic-Christian tradition, is the source and ground of our being. It is by his will that we exist. (...) To become conscious of him is to see oneself as a created, dependent creature receiving life and well-being from a higher source." (s. 70f)
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