Religion and The Good Life

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Religion and the good life: introduction / Marcel Sarot and Wessel Stoker -- PART I THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND CONCEPT -- The tension between representation and concept as a challenge for philosophy of religion / Peter Jonkers -- Beyond representation and concept: the language of testimony / R.D.N. van Riessen -- PART II THE TENSION BETWEEN REPRESENTATION AND CONCEPT -- Seduction and guidance: some remarks on the ambiguities of reason and reflective thought in connection with religion and the good life / W. Dupré -- The good life is historical / Ben Vedder -- The quality of life: comic vision in Charles Dickens and Iris Murdoch / Henry Jansen -- Narrative, atonement, and the Christian conception of the good life / Gijsbert van den Brink -- Myths and the good life: Ricoeur's hermeneutical approach to myth / Wessel Stoker -- Bahajans and their symbols: religious hermeneutics of "the good life" / Hendrick M. Vroom -- PART III REPRESENTATIONS OF THE GOOD LIFE -- Models of the good life / Marcel Sarot -- The highest good and the Kingdom of God in the philosophy of Kant: a moral concept and a religious metaphor of the good life / Donald Loose -- Jacques Derrida and messianity / Victor Kal -- Skepticism and the meaning of life / Michael Scott -- Ultimate happiness and the love of God / Vincent Brümmer -- Human being and the natural desire for God: reflections on the natural and the supernatural / Eef Dekker.