Evidence and Religious Belief (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Clark, Kelly James; Vanarragon, Raymond J.

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Produktbeschreibung

A fundamental question in philosophy of religion is whether religious belief must be based on evidence in order to be properly held. In recent years two prominent positions on this issue have been staked out: evidentialism, which claims that proper religious belief requires evidence; and Reformed epistemology, which claims that it does not. Evidence and Religious Belief contains eleven chapters by prominent philosophers which push the discussion in new directions. The volume has three parts. The first part explores the demand for evidence: some chapters object to it while others seek to restate it or find space for compromise between Reformed epistemology and evidentialism. The second part explores ways in which beliefs are related to evidence; that is, ways in which the evidence for or against religious belief that is available to a person can depend on that person's background beliefs and other circumstances. The third part contains chapters that discuss actual evidence for and against religious belief. Evidence for belief in God includes the so-called common consent of the human race and the way that such belief makes sense of the moral life; evidence against it includes profound puzzles about divine freedom which suggest that it is impossible for a being to be morally perfect.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191619090
• Artikelnr.: 38143830

Autorenporträt

Kelly James Clark is Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author and editor of over fifty articles and fifteen books including The Story of Ethics (Prentice-Hall), Return to Reason (Eerdmans), and Children of Abraham (forthcoming). Raymond J. VanArragon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is author of Key Terms in Philosophy of Religion (Continuum), co-editor of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell), and has published articles in philosophy of religion and epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I: Exploring the Demand for Evidence
* 1: James Ross: Willing Belief and Rational Faith
* 2: Linda Zagzebski: Epistemic Self-Trust and the Consensus Gentium
Argument
* 3: C. Stephen Evans: Religious Experience and the Question of Whether
Belief in God Requires Evidence
* 4: Chris Tucker: Phenomenal Conservatism and Evidentialism in
Religious Epistemology
* II: The Relation of Beliefs to Evidence
* 5: William Wainwright: Theistic Proofs, Person Relativity, and the
Rationality of Religious Belief
* 6: E. J. Coffman and Jeff Cervantez: Hiddenness, Evidence, and
Idolatry
* 7: Thomas M. Crisp: An Evolutionary Objection to the Argument from
Evil
* III: Evidence and Religious Belief
* 8: Thomas Kelly: Consensus Gentium: Reflections on the 'Common
Consent' Argument for the Existence of God
* 9: Kelly James Clark and Andrew Samuel: Motivating Morality
* 10: William Rowe: Divine Perfection and Freedom
* 11: William Hasker: The Many Gods of Hick and Mavrodes
* Response to Hasker
* Bibliography
* Index