Table of Content
Introduction: Saving the Sacred Mark Dooley Philosopher, Journalist, Broadcaster. Chapter 1: What is the Sacred? i) 'What is the Sacred?' John Cottingham, Heythrop College; University of Reading; Oxford University, UK ii) 'Scruton on the Sacred' Robert Grant, University of Glasgow, UK iii) 'The Metaphysical and Doctrinal Implications of Roger Scruton's Philosophy of Religion' Brian Hebblethwaite, Cambridge University, UK iv) 'Cognitive or Ontological Dualism?' Anthony O'Hear, University of Buckingham, UK v) 'A Glance at the Face of God' Michael Pakaluk, Ave Maria University, USA vi) 'Finding Beauty and Truth in René Girard: On Roger Scruton's Philosophical Theology' Chris Morrissey, Trinity Western University, Canada vii) 'That Obscure Object of Desire' Fiona Ellis, Heythrop College, UK Chapter 2: Sensing the Sacred i) 'Religious thought and the sensory world' Mark Wynn, University of Leeds, UK ii) 'Roger Scruton's Aesthetic Education of Mankind' Thomas H. Curran, University of King's College, Canada iii) 'Entering the Unknown: Music, Self and God' Férdia Stone-Davies, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany iv) 'Art as Religion?: Exploring Roger Scruton's Violet' Vanessa Rogers, Rhodes College and Oxford University, UK Chapter 3: Recovering the Sacred i) 'Roger Scruton and the Neoplatonic Theory of Beauty' Douglas Hedley, Cambridge University and University of Notre Dame, USA ii) 'Of musique with psalmes: Richard Hooker's philosophical account of 'the beauty of holiness': A Response to Roger Scruton's Our Church.' Torrance Kirby, McGill University, Canada iii) 'Eros versus Agape in Scruton's Philosophical Theology' James Bryson, McGill University, Canada Chapter 4: Conserving the Sacred ii) 'Integrating Religion and Conservatism' Dan Cullen, Rhodes College, USA ii) 'Roger Scruton on the origins of culture in religion: a French perspective' iii) 'Caring for the Planet from the standpoint of Philosophy of Religion' Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf's College, USA Conclusion: The Sacred as Lebenswelt Roger Scruton, University of St Andrew's and Oxford University, UK
