Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology

Name: Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology
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ISBN: 9780195073249

ISBN-10: 019507324X

ISBN-13: 9780195073249

Edition: 1992

Authors: R. Douglas Geivett, Brendan Sweetman

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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…

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List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.06" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Brendan Sweetman is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, USA. He is author and editor of ten books, including Religion and Science: An Introduction (2010) and Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (2007).



Introduction



Atheism


Expositional



The Presumption of Atheism




The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism




Atheistic Teleological Arguments



Critical



Atheological Apologetics




Wittgensteinian Fideism


Expositional



Faith, Skepticism, and Religious Understanding




The Groundlessness of Belief




Theology, Atheism, and Theism



Critical



Does Religious Skepticism Rest on a Mistake?




Reformed Epistemology


Expositional



Is Belief in God Properly Basic?




Is Reason Enough?




Experience, Proper Basicality, and Belief in God



Critical



Belief in God Is Not Properly Basic




Natural Theology


Expositional



Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo




The Argument from Design




The Three-Stage Argument for the Existence of God




Flavors, Colors, and God



Critical



The Irrelevance to Religion of Philosophic Proofs for the Existence of God




Prudential Accounts of Religious Belief


Expositional



Pascalian Wagering




You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended



Critical



Pascal's Wager




Rational Belief and Religious Experience


Expositional



Religious Experience and Religious Belief




The Rationality of Religious Belief




Three Models of Faith



Critical



Explaining Religious Experience