Abstract

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

The article focuses on the book "An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Religion," by John Caird. After sketching in a few introductory pages the nature and limits of his subject he passes at once to scrutinize three considerations which often are felt to render a science of religion impossible the considerations, namely, that knowledge must always be relative, that religion being an affair of intuition is insusceptible of scientific treatment, and that to which religion is directed, if anything more than a ducam, can only he known by revelation. The book must be widely read on account of its attractive style, and because nowhere else can so compendious a statement be found of a mode of thought becoming every year more influential.