Faith in public: a response to Greg Dawes

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Peoples, Glenn

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2005

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7

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In a recent paper, Greg Dawes has argued for what he calls the “presumption of naturalism” in religious studies, and by implication in academia in general. He argues that theological assumptions may not be brought into academic study to the extent that they are not grounded in publicly accessible knowledge. Here I argue that Christians can and must bring their theological assumptions with them into public academia. I will try to show that Dawes’ proposal entails a denial of certain elements of Christian thought, and that his methodology thus fails to be neutral, as well as having other noticeable problems.

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Peoples, Glenn. (2005), Faith in public: a response to Greg Dawes. Journal of Religion & Society, 7.

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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