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The Pure Theory of Religion

“What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?”This book develops a “pure theory” of religion comparable to the pure theory of mathematics. It does so by focusing on the miracle of Christ''s Resurrection from the dead on the Third Day; either outright and explicitly, or implicitly, in reflections and thought experiments made with historical thinkers, like Saint Augustine of Hippo and Ludwig Wittgenstein, for whom this miracle was central and true. Working with thinkers such as these is essential, because the miracle of the Third Day is simply not conceivable apart from those “for whom it is central and true.” Conventional wisdom has said that this makes it untrustworthy, as though it

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