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Michael Hand, Is Religious Education Possible?

Continuum, London, 2006, ISBN 0-8264-9150-2 (hbk)

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Notes

  1. Hendrik Kraemer (1956, p. 53) has stated that only the discipline of theology (which presupposes faith on the part of the theologian) ‘is able to produce the attitude of freedom and of impartial understanding, combined with a criticism and evaluation transcending all imprisonment in preconceived ideas and principles as ultimate standards of reference.’ ‘Such assertions’, according to Joseph M. Kitagawa, ‘imply that only those who view religions “from within” are competent to understand them’ (1959, p. 14).

  2. All subsequent pages references integrated into the text refer to Hand 2006.

  3. Hand makes it clear that his analysis of propositional knowledge does not prejudge the issue of whether God does or does not exist; in his view the idea of a non-material spiritual being is coherent.

  4. I use this deliberately ambiguous locution to gloss over the issue of whether the argument represents a proper interpretation of Wittgenstein’s position or not.

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Barnes, L.P. Michael Hand, Is Religious Education Possible?. Stud Philos Educ 27, 63–70 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-007-9067-x

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