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Author: Matthew A. Benton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198798709
Size: 59.40 MB
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Release Date: 2018
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge Belief And God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: Knowledge, Belief, and God shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.--

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Author: BENTON ET AL.
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ISBN: 9780191848469
Size: 58.87 MB
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Category: RELIGION
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge Belief And God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: Knowledge, Belief, and God shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.

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Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444301314
Size: 14.36 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2009-02-17
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is belief in God epistemically justified? That's the question at the heart of this volume in the Great Debates in Philosophy series, with Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley each addressing this fundamental question with distinctive arguments from opposing perspectives. The first half of the book contains each philosopher's explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other's arguments, in a lively and engaging conversation Offers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussion Forms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in Philosophy series

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Book Detail:
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802872042
Size: 64.54 MB
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Release Date: 2015-04-14
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge And Christian Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Size: 36.80 MB
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Release Date: 2018
Category: Electronic book
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge Belief And God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: John M. DePoe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350062723
Size: 65.38 MB
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Release Date: 2020-02-06
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Debating Christian Religious Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Hick
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606086960
Size: 62.71 MB
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Release Date: 2009-08-01
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Faith And Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this revision of his widely read study, John Hick has taken advantage of constructive comments on the first edition to make the book more useful. New material has been added and the overall structure of the volume has been changed to strengthen it both as an introduction to the problem of religious knowledge and as an exposition of the view of faith that seems to him most adequate. There is a new chapter on the Thomist-Catholic view of faith; a new treatment of the controversial notion of eschatological verification, taking account of various published critiques of the concept; and a new section on the way in which the Christian faith-awareness of God expresses itself in a distinctive way of life.

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Book Detail:
Author: William P. Alston
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471249
Size: 79.12 MB
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Release Date: 2014-01-24
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Perceiving God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience.

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Book Detail:
Author: Harold A. Netland
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 1493434896
Size: 64.63 MB
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Release Date: 2022-02-08
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Religious Experience And The Knowledge Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brian Haymes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349190667
Size: 79.66 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-01-03
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Concept Of The Knowledge Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: G.W.F. Hegel
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887068263
Size: 14.70 MB
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Release Date: 1988-03-04
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Hegel Faith And Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and community; and he is influenced by the new philosophy of Schelling, the Spinozistic Philosophy of Identity with its superb vision of the inner unity of God, nature, and rational man. Through a brilliant discussion of the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, and other luminaries of the period, Hegel shows that the time has finally come to give philosophy the authentic shape it has always been trying to reach, a shape in which philosophy’s old conflicts with religion on the one hand and with the sciences on the other are suspended once for all. This is the first English translation of this important essay. Professor H. S. Harris offers a historical and analytic commentary to the text and Professor Cerf offers an introduction to the general reader which focuses on the concept of intellectual intuition and on the difference between authentic and inauthentic philosophy.

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Book Detail:
Author: H.A. Hodges
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134903732X
Size: 47.74 MB
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Release Date: 1979-06-17
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF God Beyond Knowledge eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jonah F. Haddad
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630870625
Size: 71.64 MB
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Release Date: 2013-11-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Insanity eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Have you seen such men--peculiar, raving, foam-mouthed, and straitjacketed--throwing themselves mercilessly at white padded walls . . . ?" Such men are said to be insane. But there is more to insanity than the images depicted in film and planted in our minds by popular media. Insanity is a condition that affects us all. Unsoundness of mind disrupts our ability to think clearly and to form knowledge about the world. Our understanding is dangerously incomplete and our minds are corrupt. We are all insane. How then can we ever hope to know our world? Is it possible to form justified true beliefs about anything? What possibility, if any, do we have of escaping this condition of madness that keeps us from the light of knowledge? In Insanity, Jonah Haddad explores these very questions by introducing the main problems of the theory of knowledge and by offering a response to our madness--a response grounded in God, the ultimate Knower.

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Author: C. Stephen Evans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191501549
Size: 80.44 MB
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Release Date: 2010-05-28
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Natural Signs And Knowledge Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is there such a thing as natural knowledge of God? C. Stephen Evans presents the case for understanding theistic arguments as expressions of natural signs in order to gain a new perspective both on their strengths and weaknesses. Three classical, much-discussed theistic arguments - cosmological, teleological, and moral - are examined for the natural signs they embody. At the heart of this book lie several relatively simple ideas. One is that if there is a God of the kind accepted by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, then it is likely that a 'natural' knowledge of God is possible. Another is that this knowledge will have two characteristics: it will be both widely available to humans and yet easy to resist. If these principles are right, a new perspective on many of the classical arguments for God's existence becomes possible. We understand why these arguments have for many people a continued appeal but also why they do not constitute conclusive 'proofs' that settle the debate once and for all. Touching on the interplay between these ideas and contemporary scientific theories about the origins of religious belief, particularly the role of natural selection in predisposing humans to form beliefs in God or gods, Evans concludes that these scientific accounts of religious belief are fully consistent, even supportive, of the truth of religious convictions.

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Book Detail:
Author: George I. Mavrodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 66.75 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1970
Category: God
Language: en
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Download PDF Belief In God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book deals with a limited aspect of religion. Any well-developed religion is a very complex entity which unites components of very different sorts. There is probably no living religion that does not involve a set of characteristic beliefs, some prescribed or recommended practices (public or private, or both), some characteristic feelings or emotions, and some institutions or social arrangements. In addition, religions usually involve their adherents in special forms of experience. With respect to the complexity that it generates, interest in religion is similar to other pervasive human interests and activities, such as those that generate scientific enterprises. For some purposes, however, it is useful to separate the aspects of a complex phenomenon and to discuss one or another of these aspects individually, so far as is possible. This is the procedure that I will adopt here. My discussion is aimed primarily at that element of religious interest that centers upon belief, with what one might call the noetic aspect of religion. Some of the other aspects that I have mentioned- most notably religious experience and, to a much smaller extent, religious institutions- are discussed, but only to the extent that I take them to be relevant to questions about belief. But, of course, the should not be construed to imply that these other aspects of religion are unimportant.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Polkinghorne
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300174101
Size: 62.93 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1998-03-30
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Belief In God In An Age Of Science eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. John Polkinghorne is a major figure in today’s debates over the compatibility of science and religion. Internationally known as both a theoretical physicist and a theologian—the only ordained member of the Royal Society—Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his inquiry into the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science. In this thought-provoking book, the author focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that these "intellectual cousins" are both concerned with interpreted experience and with the quest for truth about reality. He argues eloquently that scientific and theological inquiries are parallel. The book begins with a discussion of what belief in God can mean in our times. Polkinghorne explores a new natural theology and emphasizes the importance of moral and aesthetic experience and the human intuition of value and hope. In other chapters, he compares science’s struggle to understand the nature of light with Christian theology’s struggle to understand the nature of Christ. He addresses the question, Does God act in the physical world? And he extends his ideas about the role of chaos theory, surveys the prospects for future dialogue between scientific and theological thinkers, and defends a critical realist understanding of the activities of both disciplines. Polkinghorne concludes with a consideration of the nature of mathematical truths and the links between the complementary realities of physical and mental experience.

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Author: James Hall
Publisher:
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Size: 73.35 MB
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Release Date: 1982-12
Category: Knowledge, Theory of
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowledge Belief And Transcendence eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Halvor Kvandal
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030831787
Size: 43.28 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-10-27
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF God Naturalized eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an “armchair” enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion. This text engages with the rationality of religious belief by investigating central problems and arguments in philosophy of religion from the perspective of new naturalistic research. A central question the book analyzes is whether findings in cognitive science of religion (CSR) falsify or undermine religious ideas and beliefs. With regard to CSR, this volume offers a sustained and critical investigation of the neutrality and positive-relevance view, before offering a re-appraisal of the conflict view. The text argues that when scrutinizing these views, much more attention must be paid to specific normative premises that allow empirical findings to have epistemic relevance. A novel feature is the theoretical application of analytical epistemology in virtue-epistemology to the central question of whether CSR undermines, supports, or is neutral with respect to religious belief. This book appeals to upper-level students and researchers in the field.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tyler Dalton McNabb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108609171
Size: 61.94 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2018-11-29
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Religious Epistemology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dallas Willard
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0060882441
Size: 20.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-05-26
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Knowing Christ Today eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. At a time when popular atheism books are talking about the irrationality of believing in God, Willard makes a rigorous intellectual case for why it makes sense to believe in God and in Jesus, the Son.

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