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Monotheism and Tolerance Recovering a Religion of Reason

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ISBN-10: 0253221560

ISBN-13: 9780253221568

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert Erlewine

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Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewine looks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. In contrast to Enlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and Hermann Cohen, who placed Christianity and Judaism in tension with tolerance and pluralism, Erlewine finds a way to break the impasse, soften hostilities, and establish equal relationships with the Other. Erlewine's recovery of a religion of reason stands in contrast both to secularist critics of religion who reject religion for the sake of reason and to contemporary religious conservatives who…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 1/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Overcoming the Current Crisis
Monotheism, Tolerance, and Pluralism: The Current Impasse
Learning from the Past: Introducing the Thinkers of the Religion of Reason
Mendelssohn: Idolatry and Indiscernibility
Mendelssohn and the Repudiation of Divine Tyranny
Monotheism and the Indiscernible Other
Kant: Religious Tolerance
Radical Evil and the Mire of Unsocial Sociability
Kant and the Religion of Tolerance
Cohen: Ethical Intolerance
Cohen and the Monotheism of Correlation
Rational Supererogation and the Suffering Servant
Conclusion: Revelation, Reason, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment
Notes
Works Cited
Index