The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought, Volume 15

by Donald Wiebe

In a careful re-evaluation of the works of L vy-Bruhl, Wiebe establishes the coherence of L vy-Bruhl's classic distinction between primitive, or mythopoeic, and scientific thought, maintaining that religious thinking is mythopoeic in nature while theology -- which thinks about religion -- is related to modern Western scientific thinking. The pre-Socratic philosophers, Wiebe shows, developed a form of rational thought radically different from the religious-mythopoeic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077351015X
• ISBN13: 9780773510159
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"