Debating Christian Religious Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating Christian Religious Epistemology write by John M. DePoe. This book was released on 2020-02-06. Debating Christian Religious Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Knowledge, Belief, and God
Knowledge, Belief, and God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Knowledge, Belief, and God write by Matthew A. Benton. This book was released on 2018. Knowledge, Belief, and God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology
Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology write by R. Douglas Geivett. This book was released on 1992. Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Religious Epistemology
Religious Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Epistemology write by Tyler Dalton McNabb. This book was released on 2018-11-29. Religious Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Epistemology of Religious Experience
The Epistemology of Religious Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Epistemology of Religious Experience write by Keith E. Yandell. This book was released on 1994-11-25. The Epistemology of Religious Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing against the notion that religious experience is ineffable, while advocating the view that it can provide evidence of God's existence, this text contends that social science and nonreligious explanations of religious belief and experience do not cancel out the force of the experience.
