Investigation and analysis of the philosophical foundations of the issue of religious realism and non-realism with emphasis on Peter Byrne's point of view

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1 Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Ahl al-Bayt Faculty of Theology and Education, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Religions and Comparative Mysticism, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

10.22091/jptr.2024.10678.3046

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Emphasizing Peter Byrne's thought, One of the most important figures of contemporary religious philosophy, This article, In addition to explaining his views on realism and non-realism as well as theism, religion and theology, analyzes the philosophical foundations of this issue. Byrne's critical approach to various dimensions of non-realism, it contains a fundamental distinction between theism and theology in adopting a realist and non-realist point of view about them; Considering the separation of the two fields of theology and theism, he believes in the unrealistic nature of liberal theology as a academic discipline and the realism of religion, God and theistic discourse; the purpose of the theistic discourse refers to a extra-mental, extra-mundane, transcendent entity .ultimately, has analyzed the philosophical foundations of this issue؛ and Peter Byrne's brief reference in examining the origin of the distinction between realism and non-realism؛ And also highlighted the modern non-realistic interpretation of religion. And in addition to analyzing the roots of the problem of religious realism and non-realism And by emphasizing the relationship between subject and object - especially in Kant's philosophy-has reviewed this philosophical foundation in the opinion of Peter Byrne.

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