Publication Date
December 2013
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed many actions, often violent and xenophobic, explicitly rooted in monotheistic intolerance. Perhaps, then, it should not be surprising that many secular-minded critics view monotheistic religions as not much more than intractable problems for democratic societies. Indeed, for such critics, the respective ages and histories of these traditions are not to be esteemed. Rather, these religions are simply primitive, and so they require domestication (or annihilation) by liberal values. Looking around the world today, one often wonders if it is even possible for modern sensibilities to be reconciled, or even to coexist, with the Abrahamic monotheisms and their non-rational notions of election and revelation?
Disciplines
Religion
Recommended Citation
Erlewine, Robert, "Reason Within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the Possibilities of Monotheism" (2013). Scholarship. 8.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/religion_scholarship/8
Comments
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