%0 Journal Article
%T Pragmatism attacking Christianity as weakness ¨C Methodologies of targeting
%A J.J. (Ponti) Venter
%J Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
%D 2013
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koers.v78i2.61
%X The central argument is that methods are designed with aims in mind, and are determined by one¡¯s worldview and/or ontology and/or philosophical anthropology and/or views of scholarship. It is possible, and here shown by analysis of the methodology of William James, that obsession with a cause, driven by the elitist belief that my cause is for everybody¡¯s advantage, can take an ideological format (a formalistic ideology), in which case it would show tendencies to polarise. In the case of James the scientistic methodology takes as primary target Christianity¡¯s meekness and kindness as humanitarianly ineffective. But James suffers from the problem of intellectual solipsism: reading Christianity via abstract rationalist theology.
%K Philosphy
%K pragmatism
%U http://koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/view/61