The Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James / / Paul Sands.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Sands, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Søren Kierkegaard and the Venture of Faith --; 3. John Henry Newman and the Divinatory Mind --; 4. William James and the Will to Believe --; 5. Conclusions --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463236441; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463236441
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Sands.

This book examines the religious epistemologies of Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James in the light of contemporary challenges to religious faith. They defended the right of persons to embrace religious beliefs that are not strictly warranted by empirical evidence and logical argumentation. Faith must not be hampered, they argued, by the demands of reason narrowly conceived. Paul Sands notes, however, important differences in the way each relates faith to reason. Sands examines the religious epistemologies of Kierkegaard, Newman, and James in the context of two "givens" characteristic of early twenty-first century culture, namely, the intellectual hegemony of probabilism and the pluralization of the Western mind.