The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith / / Thomas D. Senor.

A veritable who's who in the field of contemporary philosophy of religion here considers various issues in the epistemology of religious beliefs. The writings of William P. Alston, the leading figure in the revival of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion, provide the focus of these essays,...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1995
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 1 b&w photograph
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
PART I. NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD --
1. Praying the Proslogion: Anselm's Theological Method --
2. Can Philosophy Argue God's Existence? --
3. William Alston on the Problem of Evil --
4. God's Know ledge and Its Causal Efficacy --
PART II. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE --
5. Religious Experience and the Practice Conception of] ustification --
6. The Epistemic Value of Religious Experience: Perceptual and Explanatory Models --
7. Religious Language, Religious Experience, and Religious Pluralism --
PART III. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM --
8. Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism --
9. Non Est Hick --
Contributors --
Index
Summary:A veritable who's who in the field of contemporary philosophy of religion here considers various issues in the epistemology of religious beliefs. The writings of William P. Alston, the leading figure in the revival of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion, provide the focus of these essays, all but two previously unpublished. Philosophers of religion, meta-physicians, epistemologists, and theologians will find in this volume some of the most important work available in the theory of knowledge and the epistemic status of religious belief.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501744839
9783110536171
DOI:10.7591/9781501744839
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Thomas D. Senor.