HOW RELIGIOUS PRACTICES MATTER: PETER OCHS' "ALTERNATIVE NURTURANCE" OF PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Smith narrates on how religious practices matter. Here, he talks about Peter Ochs' alternative nurturance of philosophy of religion and suggests that his work as an intentionally Jewish philosopher provides a model of faithful reasoning that the community of Christian philosophers would do well...

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Published inModern theology Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 469 - 478
Main Author SMITH, JAMES K. A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2008
Subjects
Cognition & reasoning
Jewish people
Ochs, Peter
Philosophers
Philosophy
Religion
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Summary:Smith narrates on how religious practices matter. Here, he talks about Peter Ochs' alternative nurturance of philosophy of religion and suggests that his work as an intentionally Jewish philosopher provides a model of faithful reasoning that the community of Christian philosophers would do well to learn from and imitate. Moreover, he argues that Peter's work is singular in contemporary philosophy of religion because it "thickens," specifies, and particularizes the religion in philosophy of religion.
Bibliography:My title alludes to Joseph Rouse, How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Rouse, a philosopher of science with no small debt to (granted, Brandomian) pragmatism, exhibits the same emphases that I will identify as Peter Ochs' unique contribution to philosophy of religion. While I cannot follow-up the Rouse line here, I hope one day to plot a conversation between Rouse and Ochs on both religion and science.
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ISSN:0266-7177
1468-0025
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00469.x