ABSTRACT

The purpose of this book is a revisionary view of Christianity is one that retains much of the language of Christianity but dispenses with the idea of a creator God who sustains and interacts with the universe. A realist claims that people do not make religious truths, they discover them. The truth of a realist claim is based on its correspondence to reality the truth of an anti-realist claim is based on coherence. God exists is true, not because the word God refers to an everlasting being or a timeless substance, but rather because the phrase, God exists has a use and a purpose within the form of life of the believing community. Revisionary anti-realism is much more community-orientated because it maintains that the reality of God is found and expressed in language and is not independent of language. Since the Second Vatican Council the Catholic Church has heavily emphasised the idea of community.