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MAKING DEEP REASONINGS PUBLIC
Author(s) -
ADAMS NICHOLAS
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00324.x
Subject(s) - metaphysics , epistemology , luck , philosophy , common ground , friendship , sociology , psychology , social science , social psychology
This essay makes six claims about the practice of scriptural reasoning. Scriptural reasoning does not try to ground its own possibility. It approaches metaphysics as an account of what is taken to be true, not as a means to demonstrate necessary truths. It relies on luck. It models a practice of learning traditions' languages. It promotes friendship above consensus and agreement. It is a practice of making deep reasonings public. In summary, scriptural reasoning is reparative reasoning which addresses the acute needs of today's society while seeming to refuse certain imperatives that often accompany the academy's approach to those needs.