What is Meant
The text distinguishes between objective existence, which it considers open to investigation through the tools of knowledge, science, and proof, and divine existence, which it places outside the field of epistemological inquiry.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The text links the possibility of studying objective existence to its being within human consciousness, while placing divine existence outside that consciousness.
Atlas Explanation
The passage does not explain in detail the meaning of belief in God or every form of philosophical argument for it. Rather, it defines the domain of epistemology, science, and scientific proof as presented by the text.
For connected reading: Muhammad Shahrur: The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought.
The Method of Contemporary Reading · Islam in Shahrur’s account as a plural ethical framework, not a coercive ritual system · The Qur’an in Contemporary Thought · Islam in Shahrur’s account as a plural ethical framework, not a coercive ritual system