Divine Teaching and the Way of the World
Samuel Fleischacker
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Divine Teaching and the Way of the World

A Defense of Revealed Religion

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Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called 'revealed religion': religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacred, as wholly authoritative over one's life. At the same time, he maintains that revealed religions stand in danger of corruption or fanaticism unless they are combined with secular scientific practices and a secular morality. The first two parts of Divine Teaching and the Way of the World argue that the cognitive and moral practices of a society should prescind from religious commitments - they constitute a secular 'way of the world', to adapt a phrase fr...