A Postmodern Approach to the Truth and Meaning Challenges

• Published in: Challenging the New Atheism pp. 116 - 142
• Main Author: Shepherd, Aaron Pratt
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2021; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Scare Quotes; Capitalistic Global Political Economy; Marion's Approach; Young Man; Kantian Practical Reason; Jesus's Message; Religious Knowledge; Meaning Challenge; Kierkegaard; Techno Scientific Rationality; Continental Philosophy; Truth Challenge; Vice Versa; Postmodern Philosophy; Epistemic Humility; Epistemic Criteria; God's Essence; Soren Kierkegaard; Deconstructive Hermeneutic; Specific Pro-social Behaviors; Epistemic Import; Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Techno Capitalism
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429331411-4
• ISBN: 9780367353551; 9780367545581; 0367545586; 0367353555

The truth challenge-that religion is irrational, insofar as the basic tenets of theism are false-is motivated by a concern with what counts as knowledge in the 21st-century Anglophone world. Jean-Luc Marion adds another critical dimension to postmodern philosophy of religion by addressing the implications of a deconstructive hermeneutic for philosophical theology. The dominant modes of contemporary philosophy of religion take up this task of providing and justifying accounts of religious cognition and epistemic criteria, and, in so doing, further the prospects of a philosophical rejoinder to the truth challenge. In After the Death of God, Caputo further clarifies his view of the relation between faith and reason, as well as religion and philosophy. Caputo calls for both a weakening of thinking and even of historicism, and a decision for "radical theology" in philosophy of religion.