The Wisdom to Doubt : : A Justification of Religious Skepticism /

The Wisdom to Doubt : : A Justification of Religious Skepticism / / J. L. Schellenberg.

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The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Schellenberg, J. L.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 6 line figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: An Uncertain Heritage
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Finitude and the future: seven modes of religious skepticism
  • 1. The Subject Mode
  • 2. The Object Mode
  • 3. The Retrospective Mode
  • 4. The Prospective Mode
  • 5. The Modes Combined: Limitation, Immaturity, Presumption
  • 6. The Bearing of Pragmatic Considerations
  • Part II. Cradles of Conviction: The Modes Applied and Fortified
  • 7. An Answer to Naturalism
  • 8. The Questionableness of Religious Experience
  • Part III. God and the Gaps: The Modes Illustrated and Vindicated
  • 9. Hiddenness Arguments I
  • 10. Hiddenness Arguments II
  • 11. The Argument from Horrors
  • 12. The Free-Will Offense
  • 13. Consolidating Forces: The Arguments Combined
  • 14. Closing the Case: Seven Proofs and a Skeptical Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Definitions
  • Appendix B. Principles
  • Index

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