The God Hypothesis – Keith Ward
The God Hypothesis is a construct of reason that claims to have explanatory power in terms of ultimate necessity, ultimate causative power, and ultimate value. The God Hypothesis is put forward as the most compelling integrating postulate that provides a rational interpretive scheme for all diverse forms of human experience, and that justifies belief, when it does, by the rational basis it gives for those apprehensions of transcendent value and life-transforming intimations of human fulfilment that are the life-blood of religion.
Contrary to what is said by some of the philosophically naive atheists of our own day, it is faith that asks for the restoration of reason, and it is the Epicurean hypothesis that threatens to deprive reason of its power, and make it nothing more than the slave of the passions.
Keith Ward, God and the Philosophers (pp.74-75)
The Reverend Professor (John Stephen) Keith Ward (born 22 August 1938) is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian, and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and (since 1972) an ordained priest in the Church of England. He was a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003. Comparative theology and the interplay between science and faith are two of his main topics of interest.
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