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Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195073249
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique textbook--the first to offer balanced, comprehensive coverage of all major perspectives on the rational justification of religious belief--includes twenty-four key papers by some of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Arranged in six sections, each representing a major approach to religious epistemology, the book begins with papers by noted atheists, setting the stage for the main theistic responses--Wittgensteinian Fideism, Reformed epistemology, natural theology, prudential accounts of religious beliefs, and rational belief based in religious experience--in each case offering a representative sample of papers by leading exponents, a critical paper, and a substantial bibliography. A comprehensive introductory essay and ample cross-references help students to contrast and evaluate the different approaches, while the overall arrangement encourages them to assess the full range of philosophical positions on the issue. Carefully selected to provide both a comprehensive overview of current work and a series of modern perspectives on many classic sources--Swinburne's detailed discussion of Hume's critique of the design argument, for example, as well as an entire section evaluating and extending Pascal's famous Wager--the essays also provide a uniquely readable survey that will be useful in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of religion and epistemology.

Knowledge, Belief, and God

Author : Matthew A. Benton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198798709
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Belief, and God written by Matthew A. Benton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Investigations into contextualist and pragmatic dimensions of knowledge suggest radically new ways of meeting skeptical challenges and of understanding the relation between the epistemological and practical environment. New insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence all have a potentially revolutionary effect on how we understand our epistemological place in the world. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. Knowledge, Belief, and God incorporates these myriad new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, breadth, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. They pose original questions and shed new light on long-standing issues in religious epistemology; and these developments will in turn generate contributions to epistemology itself, since religious belief provides a vital testing ground for recent epistemological ideas.

Debating Christian Religious Epistemology

Author : John M. DePoe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062766
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Debating Christian Religious Epistemology written by John M. DePoe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to believe in God? What passes as evidence for belief in God? What issues arise when considering the rationality of belief in God? Debating Christian Religious Epistemology introduces core questions in the philosophy of religion by bringing five competing viewpoints on the knowledge of God into critical dialogue with one another. Each chapter introduces an epistemic viewpoint, providing an overview of its main arguments and explaining why it justifies belief. The validity of that viewpoint is then explored and tested in a critical response from an expert in an opposing tradition. Featuring a wide range of different philosophical positions, traditions and methods, this introduction: - Covers classical evidentialism, phenomenal conservatism, proper functionalism, covenantal epistemology and traditions-based perspectivalism - Draws on MacIntyre's account of rationality and ideas from the Analytic and Conservatism traditions - Addresses issues in social epistemology - Considers the role of religious experience and religious texts Packed with lively debates, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in understanding the major positions in contemporary religious epistemology and how religious concepts and practices relate to belief and knowledge.

The Right to Believe

Author : Dariusz Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110320169
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Believe written by Dariusz Lukasiewicz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, many contemporary epistemologists in the analytic tradition have entered into debate regarding the right to belief with new tools: Richard Swinburne, Anthony Kenny, Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Peter van Inwagen (who contributes a piece in this volume) defending or contesting the requirement of evidence for any justified belief. The best things we can do, it seems, is to examine more attentively the true notion of “right to believe”, especially about religious matters. This is exactly what authors of the papers in this book do.

The Vision of Gabriel Marcel

Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023945
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Gabriel Marcel written by Brendan Sweetman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel's unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.Brendan Sweetman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, USA. His books include Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006) and Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2007). He has coauthored or coedited several other books, including Truth and Religious Belief (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), and Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1992). Professor Sweetman has published more than fifty articles and reviews in a variety of collections and journals, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, and Review of Metaphysics. He writes regularly in the areas of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics.

Religious Epistemology

Author : Tyler Dalton McNabb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108609171
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Religious Epistemology written by Tyler Dalton McNabb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If epistemology is roughly the study of knowledge, justification, warrant, and rationality, then religious epistemology is the study of how these epistemic concepts relate to religious belief and practice. This Element, while surveying various religious epistemologies, argues specifically for Plantingian religious epistemology. It makes the case for proper functionalism and Plantinga's AC models, while it also responds to debunking arguments informed by cognitive science of religion. It serves as a bridge between religious epistemology and natural theology.

Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441197060
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy written by Brendan Sweetman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of religion is a core area in the study of philosophy, as well as being a subject of growing contemporary interest. It encompasses some of the major and most complex philosophical questions. Does God exist? What is God's nature? Why does God allow evil? What is a religious experience? Are religion and science compatible? What relevance does evolution have for religious belief? It also covers questions concerning the challenge of religious pluralism, a topic of great contemporary relevance. Written with the specific needs of students new to philosophy in mind, Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy covers the work of major thinkers and outlines clearly the central questions and arguments encountered in studying the philosophy of religion. This is an engaging and clear introduction to a major component of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum, as well as being an ideal support for general readers.

Religion and Science: An Introduction

Author : Brendan Sweetman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847060153
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Science: An Introduction written by Brendan Sweetman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Believing by Faith

Author : John Bishop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019920554X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Believing by Faith written by John Bishop and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does our available evidence show that some particular religion is correct? It seems unlikely, given the great diversity of religious - and non-religious - views of the world. But if no religious beliefs can be shown true on the evidence, can it be right to make a religious commitment? Should people make 'leaps of faith'? Or would we all be better off avoiding commitments that outrun our evidence? And, if leaps of faith can be acceptable, how do we tell the difference between goodand bad ones - between sound religion and dogmatic ideology or fundamentalist fanaticism? Believing by Faith offers answers to these questions, inspired by a famous attempt to justify faith made by William James in 1896. In doing so, it engages critically with much recent discussion in the philosophyof religion, and, especially, the epistemology of religious belief.

An Epistemology of Religion and Gender

Author : Ulrike Auga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429276002
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book An Epistemology of Religion and Gender written by Ulrike Auga and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book puts forward a new epistemological framework for a theory of religion and gender's role in the public sphere. It provides a sophisticated understanding of gender and its relation to religion as a primarily performative category of knowledge production, rooting that understanding in case studies from around the world. The publication focuses on the new role of religion and gender in the public sphere in Europe, the USA and the African context. It analyses the interdependence of religion, gender and neo-nationalisms, scrutinising the biopolitical interferences of nation states and dominant political and religious institutions. It then moves on to uncover counter-discourses and spaces of activism and agency in contexts such as East Germany and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Using gender and queer theory in tandem with postcolonial and post-secular perspectives, readers are shown a more nuanced understanding of critical contemporary questions related to religion, gender and sexuality. This is a bold new take on religion, gender and public life. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious, Gender and Visual Culture Studies and Cultural Critique, as well as those working on religion's interaction with Politics, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Activism"--

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion

Author : Michael L. Peterson
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9786610197460
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion written by Michael L. Peterson and published by Blackwell Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion features newly commissioned debates on some of the most controversial issues in the field. For example: Is evil evidence against belief in God? Does science discredit religion? Is God's existence the best explanation of the universe? Is eternal damnation compatible with the Christian concept of God? Is morality based on God's commands?This first title in Blackwell's Contemporary Debates in Philosophy series presents important philosophical issues in a stimulating and engaging manner. Twelve central questions are posed, with each question addressed by a pair of opposing essays. The debates range from vigorous disagreements between theists and their critics to arguments between theists of different philosophical and theological persuasions. Both students and scholars in the philosophy of religion will readily sense the value of rigorous debate for sharply defining the issues and paving the way for further progress.

Communities of Informed Judgment

Author : Frederick D. Aquino
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813213649
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Communities of Informed Judgment written by Frederick D. Aquino and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original contribution to Newman studies, the book has an interdisciplinary focus, drawing from recent work in social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and cognitive science. It also takes up issues relevant to the philosophy of religion, epistemology of religious belief, systematic theology, ecumenical dialogue, and studies in John Henry Newman.

Religion and Knowledge

Author : Dr Elisabeth Arweck
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471160
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Knowledge written by Dr Elisabeth Arweck and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often controversial, understandings of how the world works and where ultimate meaning can be found. Governments have risen and fallen on the basis of such differences and global conflict has raged around competing claims about the origins and content of religious truth. Such concerns give rise to recurrent questions, faced by academics, governments and the general public. How do we treat statements made by religious groups and on what basis are they made? What authorities lie behind religious claims to truth? How can competing claims about knowledge be resolved? Are there instances when it is appropriate to police religious knowledge claims or restrict their public expression? This book addresses the relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. It builds on historical foundations, but offers a distinctive focus on the changing status of religious phenomena at the turn of the twenty-first century. Including critical engagement with live debates about intelligent design and the ‘new atheism’, this collection of essays brings recent research on religious movements into conversation with debates about socialisation, reflexivity and the changing capacity of social institutions to shape human identities. Contributors examine religion as an institutional context for the production of knowledge, as a form of knowledge to be transmitted or conveyed and as a social field in which controversies about knowledge emerge.

In Defense of Miracles

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830897747
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Miracles written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can modern intellectuals believe in miracles? Editors R. Douglas Geivett and Gary R. Habermas provide a collection of essays to refute objections to the miraculous and set forth the positive case for God's action in history.

The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology

Author : William James Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019966224X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology written by William James Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work features forty-one original essays which reflect a broad range of perspectives and methodological assumptions. It focuses on standard epistemic concepts that are usually thought of as questions about norms and sources of theology (including reasoning, experience, tradition, scripture, and revelation). Furthermore it explores general epistemic concepts that can be related to theology (i.e. wisdom, understanding, virtue, evidence, testimony, scepticism, and disagreement). Each chapter provides an analysis of the crucial issues and debates while identifying and articulating the relevant epistemic considerations. This work will stimulate future research.

A Secular Age

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Christian Belief in a Postmodern World

Author : Diogenes Allen
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804206259
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Christian Belief in a Postmodern World written by Diogenes Allen and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a philosophical argument for the reasonableness of Christian faith in today's world. Diogenes Allen shows how Christian belief is now being supported by scientific and philosophical principles--perhaps for the first time in 300 years.