José Gómez Caffarena. A philosophy of religion

Abstract

After recalling the great intellectual work accomplished by José Gómez Caffarena, the following text analyses the structure and basic thesis of his masterpiece Enigma and mystery. A philosophy of religion. The book adds to its view on the history and structure of the religious fact a comprehensive inquiry about several philosophical approaches to religion, according to a well known framework inspired by Dilthey. Finally, it sketches an accurate sustaining the philosophical plausibility of the belief in God, wich deals a lot of problems concerning philosophy of religion (pantheism, providence, physical and moral evil, etcetera.). Backed by a consistent knowledge of the scholastic tradition and modern philosophy (from Kant to the main currents of the twentieth century), Caffarena offers a serious and nuanced programme wich advocates the possible combination of the cautioness for reason with the encouragement of hope.