Dewey effort to naturalize religion (by shifting the primary target towards a non-transcendental understanding of “religious experience”) additionally required a reinterpretation of different conventional notions—such as “faith” and “God”. Faith requires neither empirical inquiry nor verification; one has faith within the evidence of issues not seen. Also, religion sometimes connotes mental acceptance, once more without proof, of non secular propositions (such as “God exists and loves mankind”). The problem A Common Faith took on seems, looking back, insurmountable.
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