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Safe and Responsible God-Talk: Beyond F. LeRon Shults's "Abstinence-Only" Version of "The Talk"

Safe and Responsible God-Talk: Beyond F. LeRon Shults's "Abstinence-Only" Version of "The Talk" Safe and Responsible God-Talk: Beyond F. LeRon Shults’s “Abstinence-Only” Version of “The Talk” Jeffrey b . speaks / boston university I. Introduction ather than proclaiming the “death of god,” in the fashion of ni- etzsche’s madman, f . ler on shults proudly proclaims the “birth of r god” in his incendiary, radically iconoclastic book Theology after the Birth of God. shults argues, drawing on the multidisciplinary findings of the biocultural study of religion, that the commonplace belief in supernatural agents is the result of a variety of evolved cognitive and coalitional mecha- nisms that cause human beings to overdetect agency and that contribute to in-group cohesion—traits that would have been selected because they aided the survival of early hominids living in hunter-gatherer societies, but that are maladaptive in our contemporary context. in his most recent book, Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective, shults expands on his arguments for “theogonic reproduction theory,” sup- porting them with hundreds of empirical studies. f or shults, these findings have potentially devastating consequences for traditional beliefs about god, liberating human beings “so that we can learn to live together—on our own,” and respond to the unique political, economic, and environmental http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

Safe and Responsible God-Talk: Beyond F. LeRon Shults's "Abstinence-Only" Version of "The Talk"

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Safe and Responsible God-Talk: Beyond F. LeRon Shults’s “Abstinence-Only” Version of “The Talk” Jeffrey b . speaks / boston university I. Introduction ather than proclaiming the “death of god,” in the fashion of ni- etzsche’s madman, f . ler on shults proudly proclaims the “birth of r god” in his incendiary, radically iconoclastic book Theology after the Birth of God. shults argues, drawing on the multidisciplinary findings of the biocultural study of religion, that the commonplace belief in supernatural agents is the result of a variety of evolved cognitive and coalitional mecha- nisms that cause human beings to overdetect agency and that contribute to in-group cohesion—traits that would have been selected because they aided the survival of early hominids living in hunter-gatherer societies, but that are maladaptive in our contemporary context. in his most recent book, Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reproduction in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective, shults expands on his arguments for “theogonic reproduction theory,” sup- porting them with hundreds of empirical studies. f or shults, these findings have potentially devastating consequences for traditional beliefs about god, liberating human beings “so that we can learn to live together—on our own,” and respond to the unique political, economic, and environmental

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American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press

Published: Jan 3, 2019

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