Roger Trigg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3912712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Trigg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Trigg |
| SIGNATURE | TRIGG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Keith Ward, Adventures in Belief
by the magisterium, for instance), is it true that 'prioritising our own moral autonomy over against God's authority . . . is the root of all that is wrong with humanity'?Some qualification of this absolute disjunction would be more consistent with a broader range of Christian traditions, and would qualify this valuable analysis of the theological idea of accountability.Humans need some sense of goodness and beauty before they can identify God as…
Stephen LeDrew, Two Tales of the Death of God
Andrew J. Brown, Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate
caused extensive poverty and hardship.Jesus locates his ministry in precisely those rural communities in Galilee directly affected by such policies, and he attracts a following from those who probably regarded him as a popular (meaning not officially recognized) prophet.The nine papers in this collection build up this argument step by step, attending first to the relationship between the elite priests in Jerusalem and the Roman occupying authorit…
Nicholas Spencer, Magisteria
Andrew Davison, Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine
John F. Haught, God after Einstein
Michael Rosen, The Shadow of God
Christianity and the threat of relativism
Developments in philosophy over the last 50 years have had an increasing effect on conventional opinion. In particular, relativist tendencies link truth not to an independent reality, but to the judgement of individual or society. Christianity, however, needs to look to a transcendent God, as Creator, so that this is God's world. Without the concept of a truth that is to be discovered, not constructed, by humans, all possibility of reason is dest…
Veronika Rybanska, The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition
Fraser Watts, A Plea for Embodied Spirituality
Hans Van Eyghen, Arguing from Cognitive Science of Religion
Equality and freedom of religion
The philosopher Roger Trigg reflects on the wider implications of his ongoing work on the Church of England's response to contemporary issues concerning marriage and sexuality. His particular concern is to defend religious freedom
Robert N. McCauley with E. Thomas Lawson, Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Stephen T. Asma, Why We Need Religion
Andrew Steane, Science and Humanity
Denis Alexander, Genes, Determinism and God
Intelligent Design and the Temptation of Scientism
No Ordinary Freedom
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He is an Associate Scholar of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center, Georgetown University. A past President of both the British Society for Philosophy of Religion and the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, his most recent books are Equ…
Obituary
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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age
Religious Voices in Public Places
Private faith and public education
Religion in Public Life
How far can religion play a part in the public sphere, or should it be only a private matter? In this book, the author examines this question in the context of today's pluralist societies, where many different beliefs clamour for attention. Should we celebrate diversity, or are matters of truth at stake? In particular, can we maintain our love of freedom, while cutting it off from religious roots? In societies in which there are many conflicting …
Does science deal with the real world
The background to this paper is given by the so called 'science wars', about whether science is in the business of construction rather than discovery. Is it a mere social practice or a body of knowledge about the real world? At the start of modern science there was no doubt about this, because scientists such as Newton and Boyle started with a firm metaphysical and theological base. Without that, science has become ever more anthropocentric. The …
Understanding Social Science
Pain and Emotion
Pain and Emotion
Agent, Action, and Reason
Book Reviews Agent, Action, and Reason. Edited by Robert Binkley, Richard Bronaugh and Ausonio Marras. (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1971. Pp. vii + 202. Price £2.50) Roger Trigg Roger Trigg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 90, January 1973, Pages 87–89, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217746 Published: 01 January 1973
Reason and Commitment
Book Reviews Get access Reason and Commitment. By Roger Trigg. ( Cambridge University Press. 1973. Pp. 172. Price £3.20, paper 95p.) Chris Swoyer Chris Swoyer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 97, October 1974, Pages 375–378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217835 Published: 01 October 1974
The Sociology of Knowledge
Religion and the Threat of Relativism
Relativism has always proved tempting when people who had previously lived a settled and complacent life have suddenly been confronted with new and different ideas or practices. The obvious example is the ferment produced in ancient Athens when the contrast with Eastern ideas chronicled by Herodotus showed vividly that not everyone thought like the Athenians, or even the Greeks. The result was a far-reaching scepticism. Protagoras, according to P…
Sin and Freedom
What is the relationship between the concept of sin and that of freedom? There is a powerful tradition in European thought linking the idea of moral evil with human freedom. Only with a broadening of consciousness, with the awareness of alternative possibilities, did man become able to choose between good and evil, and was responsible for that choice. The myth of the Fall, it seems, shows that eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil ga…
The Sociobiological View of Man
What is the relation of the biological to the social sciences? Fierce battles are being currently fought over this question and much hangs on the answer. If society (or culture) is taken as an irreducible category which can only be understood in its own terms, the social sciences can feel safe from the sinister designs of other disciplines. Yet it is a commonplace that cultures vary, and we humans are prone to look at the differences rather than …
Thinking about Social Thinking
Journal Article Thinking about Social Thinking: The Philosophy of the Social Sciences , by Anthony Flew. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985, vi #x002B 222 pp. $34.95; 11.95 (paper) and Understanding Social Science; A Philosophical Introduction to the Social Sciences by Roger Trigg. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985, 224 pp. $34.95; 14.95 (paper) Get access Stjepan G. Meŝtrović Stjepan G. Meŝtrović Lander College Search for other works by this author o…
The Metaphysical Self
What is the self? What is the ‘I’ that appears to be the subject of all ‘my’ thoughts and imaginings, my experiences and desires? This is not simply about problems of identification. How I pick you out or you recognize me are questions related to the problem of what it is to be or you, but they are not the same issue. If our ‘true selves’ are inaccessible to public scrutiny, how we are identified and re-identified publicly will be different from …
Reason and Faith—II
The categories of reason and faith are often contrasted. When reason gives out, we are told that we have to rely on faith. Such exhortations are made particularly in the context of religion. When for instance, we face some personal tragedy which may well seem inexplicable, we are told that faith can help us through it. Very often faith is referred to in a vacuum. Presumably faith in God is usually meant, but all too often God drops out of the pic…
Understanding Social Science
Does science deal with the real world
The background to this paper is given by the so called 'science wars', about whether science is in the business of construction rather than discovery. Is it a mere social practice or a body of knowledge about the real world? At the start of modern science there was no doubt about this, because scientists such as Newton and Boyle started with a firm metaphysical and theological base. Without that, science has become ever more anthropocentric. The …
Private faith and public education
Religion in Public Life
How far can religion play a part in the public sphere, or should it be only a private matter? In this book, the author examines this question in the context of today's pluralist societies, where many different beliefs clamour for attention. Should we celebrate diversity, or are matters of truth at stake? In particular, can we maintain our love of freedom, while cutting it off from religious roots? In societies in which there are many conflicting …
Religious Voices in Public Places
Obituary
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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age
No Ordinary Freedom
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He is an Associate Scholar of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center, Georgetown University. A past President of both the British Society for Philosophy of Religion and the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, his most recent books are Equ…
Intelligent Design and the Temptation of Scientism
Denis Alexander, Genes, Determinism and God
Stephen T. Asma, Why We Need Religion
Andrew Steane, Science and Humanity
Robert N. McCauley with E. Thomas Lawson, Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Veronika Rybanska, The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition
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