The Fatal Flaw Hardcover - 1995
by Duncan Howlett
The author of The Critical Way in Religion examines why religious Liberals never actually achieved their goals. Howlett answers the question: What would happen if Liberal religionists were to set out to meet the standards of their intellectual tradition?
From the rear cover
Liberalism in religion grew strong in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, then collapsed. Why? Duncan Howlett argues that a fatal flaw at the heart of the movement undercut its progress. The Liberals were unwilling or unable to hold to their own central principle: the need to maintain a free and open mind, heart, and spirit in religion. In the end Liberalism always fell back on the basic traditions and dogmas of the organized religions. Alert minds drawn to Liberalism by the prospect of complete freedom of thought in religion felt betrayed, and many abandoned the movement. Howlett summons us to a new and self-consistent Liberalism, one that test to the uttermost the validity of every belief we hold. The latter half of the book spells out the positive beliefs of a self-consistent Liberalism and the demands those beliefs lay upon us.
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- Title The Fatal Flaw
- Author Duncan Howlett
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition Fi
- Pages 231
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Prometheus Books, Amherst
- Date 1995-12-01
- Features Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780879759230 / 0879759232
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.32 x 0.97 in (23.65 x 16.05 x 2.46 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Faith and reason - Christianity, Christianity - Forecasting
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94026944
- Dewey Decimal Code 230.046
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