{"id":252,"date":"2015-01-13T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-12-13T19:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:32:40","slug":"evaluating-rival-epistemological-conceptions-of-religion-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/evaluating-rival-epistemological-conceptions-of-religion-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating rival epistemological conceptions of Religion and State as templates of reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this essay is to review and evaluate why we are where we are with the categories of Religion and State within the Humanities. \u00a0It contends they are vague and arbitrary because of naturalistic epistemological assumptions that relativize and reify the concepts, preventing any meaningful reform of either institution.\u00a0 The essay then presents the contrasting thesis that a theological conception of both is to be preferred.\u00a0 It seeks to legitimise an epistemology that is rooted in a theological understanding and argues for a rediscovery of the Reformation Christian social conscience.\u00a0 The final section demonstrates how such a theological understanding can generate a template of reform for both religion and State.<\/p>\n<p>A PDF of the essay is found <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/1884Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The supporting conference presentation is found <a href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/Documents\/Content\/AberdeenPres.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this essay is to review and evaluate why we are where we are with the categories of Religion and State within the Humanities. \u00a0It contends they are vague and arbitrary because of naturalistic epistemological assumptions that relativize and reify the concepts, preventing any meaningful reform of either institution.\u00a0 The essay then presents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,25],"tags":[120,121,40],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-state","category-dominion-theology-reconstructionism","category-philosophy","tag-church-and-state","tag-religion-and-politics","tag-science-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}