Donald D. Evans

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Donald Dwight Evans (September 21, 1927 – January 5, 2018) was a Canadian educator, psychotherapist, and spiritual counsellor.

Born in

D.Phil.
from Oxford), an associate professor of philosophy from 1964 to 1968, and full professor from 1968 until 1993.

In his early work, his ‘’The Logic of Self-Involvement’’ (1963), Evans finds the meaning of religion within language. In his later works, his 1980 ‘’Faith, Authenticity, and Morality’’ and his 1981 ‘’Struggle and Fulfillment,’’ Evans finds the basis of religious belief in religious experience.[1] He died on January 5, 2018, aged 90.[2][3]

Indignant compassion

‘’’Indignant compassion’’’ is experienced by both believers and non-believers in

Nazi prison—he wrote “Christians stand by God in his hour of grieving.” [4]

Quotes

The purpose of philosophical and religious reflection is to help us lead good lives

Works

Logic of Self-involvement: A Philosophical Study of Everyday Language with Special Reference to the Christian Use of Language about God as Creator, 1963, SCM Press, In Series edited by Ian Ramsey and John McIntyre

  • Chapter 6 “Differences between scientific and religious assertions” (pp. 101–133) in ‘’Science and Religion: New Perspectives on the Dialogue’’, Editor
    Harper & Row
    , 1968

See also

  • List of science and religion scholars

References

  1. ^ ‘’Language, Experience and the life well-lived: a review of the work of Donald Evans’’, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 1. January 1983, pp. 33-41
  2. ^ "globeandmail.com: PROF. DONALD DWIGHT EVANSSeptember 21". v1.theglobeandmail.com.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "In memoriam: Donald Evans (1927-2018) - Department of Philosophy". utoronto.ca.
  4. Harper & Row
    ), 1968, pp. 106-107
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