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Author: Richard L. Purtill
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1681494000
Size: 50.74 MB
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Release Date: 2009-01-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Reason To Believe eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Is religious belief reasonable? Of course the so-called New Atheists, such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, energetically say, "No!," Many others, including some believers, insist that faith is utterly beyond reasoned argument. Faith, they declare, is believing something that reason tells you can't be so. In this way they think they shield belief from rational criticism. But philosopher Richard Purtill will have none of that approach to religion. In this newly updated classic work, Purtill carefully applies the power of the mind to understanding whether there is a rational basis for certain religious beliefs. His focus is on widely held Christian beliefs, although much of what he says applies also to other religious traditions. Purtill assesses the common objections to religious belief the claims that religious tenets are nonsensical, wishful thinking, the result of gullibility, immoral, or refuted by modern discoveries. Then he considers the arguments in favor of Christian belief by studying the nature of faith, of the universe, of morality, of happiness, and the world with God in it. He also scrutinizes certain beliefs involving claims of Christian revelation Ñ the credentials of revelation, the idea of God, Jesus as God's Son, organized religion, and the last things (death, judgment, heaven and hell). The two appendices tackle the Christian doctrine of the Atonement and the influence of certain Christian writers on the revival of Christian belief in the 20th century. An updated For Further Reading section is included. Reason to BelieveÊis not a work of revealed theology or religious devotion; it is a highly readable book on the philosophy of religion, aimed at the reader who wants to think seriously about religion but who doesn't know all the philosophers' and theologians' jargon and who may or may not be a committed believer.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael L. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Size: 12.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1998
Category: Christianity
Language: en
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Download PDF Reason Religious Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Drawing from both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors examine topics of religious experience, faith and reason, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, religious language, miracles, life after death, and much more. The volume is enhanced by study questions and suggestions for further reading. The book also may serve as a companion to the authors' 1996 anthology, PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

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Size: 39.83 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015
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Language: en
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Download PDF Reason And Religious Belief An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fifth edition, explores perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the best in both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors examine religious experience, faith and reason, the divine attributes, arguments for and against the existence of God, divine action (in various forms of theism), Reformed epistemology, religious language, religious diversity, and religion and science.

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Book Detail:
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802816047
Size: 26.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1984
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Reason Within The Bounds Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Expanding on his 1976 study of the bearing of Christian faith on the practice of scholarship, Wolterstorff has added a substantial new section on the role of faith in the decisions scholars make about their choice of subject matter.

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert H. Thouless
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521081498
Size: 61.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1972-01-06
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF An Introduction To The Psychology Of Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The third edition of this successful book, which applies the science of psychology to problems of religion. Dr Thouless explores such questions as: why do people believe? Why are their beliefs often held with irrational strength? How are changes in belief systems related to mental health? What are reasonable attitudes towards alternative belief systems? This edition includes samples of the experimental and statistical studies of religious problems, including the author's own study of the strength of religious beliefs. This edition also pays more attention to the problems of non-Christian religious systems, with special consideration given to the problems of mutual toleration. Finally Dr Thouless considers whether it is reasonable for modern man to adhere to any religious belief system. This is an excellent textbook for students of the social sciences, particularly psychology and theology, and will also interest the general reader who has an intellectual curiosity about religion.

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Book Detail:
Author: Michael L. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Size: 58.95 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: Christianity
Language: en
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Download PDF Reason Religious Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What is the status of belief in God? Must a rational case be made or can such belief be properly basic? Is it possible to reconcile the concept of a good God with evil and suffering? In light of great differences among religions, can only one religion be true? The most comprehensive work of its kind, Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fourth edition, explores these and other perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the best in both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors examine religious experience, faith and reason, the divine attributes, arguments for and against the existence of God, divine action (in various forms of theism), Reformed epistemology, religious language, religious diversity, religion and science, and much more. Retaining the engaging style and thorough coverage of previous editions, the fourth edition adds a critical new chapter on the ontological status of religion and the nature of religious claims. It also features revised treatments of omnipotence, miracles, and providence and updated suggestions for further reading. A sophisticated yet accessible introduction, Reason and Religious Belief, Fourth Edition, is ideally suited for use with the authors' companion anthology, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Third Edition (OUP, 200

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Book Detail:
Author: Hendrik Hart
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042007161
Size: 32.72 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1999
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Walking The Tightrope Of Faith eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book expands upon the dialogue between the atheist philosopher Kai Nielsen and the Christian philosopher Hendrik Hart in the book Search for Community in A Withering Tradition. Collected here for the first time are the responses of several prominent Canadian philosophers to Nielsen's outspoken work in the philosophy of religion, including their responses to Hart's criticisms of Nielsen. New replies by Hart and Nielsen to these added voices are also included. This volume is of interest for students in the philosophy of religion who wish to examine the encounter between religious faith and secular humanism at the close of the twentieth century, an increasingly postmodern time in which the appeal to an a historical standard of rationality is no longer sought or even thought possible. This book tackles tough topics like the appropriate role of reason in the intellectual criticism and defense of faith, the limits of the rational justification of human knowledge, the role of pre-reflective commitments in human intellectual life, the nature of truth, and the possibility for peace in a world consisting of a plural and often violent collection of cultural and religious groups.

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Book Detail:
Author: Jeff Jordan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847681532
Size: 40.70 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1996
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Faith Freedom And Rationality eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The philosophy of religion, once considered a deviation from an otherwise analytically rigorous discipline, has flourished over the past two decades. This collection of new essays by twelve distinguished philosophers of religion explores three broad themes: religious attitudes of belief, acceptance, and love; human and divine freedom; and the rationality of religious belief.

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Book Detail:
Author: Geran F. Dodson
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622730577
Size: 48.59 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2016-04-11
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF The Impact Of Reason On Faith Ethics And Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The purpose of the book is to examine the theological claims of ethics, faith and belief from a philosophical perspective. The Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants of the Old Testament, Jesus of the synoptic gospels, and Paul’s writings serve as the frame of reference in examining a biblical expression of reason and structured logic. The message of Jesus centered on the Kingdom of God, defined the meaning of faith and belief, established a new ethic, and framed the message in logic forms. The life and death of Jesus brought the realization of God’s final covenant as prophesied by the Old Testament. However, Paul appropriated and developed the Jesus of history into the mythological eschatological Christ figure. The clash of philosophy and theology is evident with theological presuppositions that are based on spiritual insight and divine revelation. Logic in scripture employs propositions based primarily on revealed proof that is within the context of that which cannot be proven absolutely. Uncovering the identity of YHWH in the manuscripts and religious practices of Canaanite culture clearly associated YHWH with the polytheism of the Ugarit texts. YHWH was one of the seventy sons of the Canaanite Most High God El and took on a unique identity that was rooted in El and the polytheistic nature of the pantheon of gods. Theological truths stand within the context of faith and reason stands apart from faith and infers only that which can be proven based on evidence. That which is knowable by faith cannot be known by reason since reason cannot validate that which is not proven to exist.

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Book Detail:
Author: Herman Philipse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199697531
Size: 31.33 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-02-23
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF God In The Age Of Science eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of religious belief, and by careful reasoning casts doubt on the legitimacy of relying on faith instead of evidence, and on probabilistic arguments for the existence of God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Margaret Scotford Archer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415336178
Size: 44.44 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2004
Category: Critical realism
Language: en
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Download PDF Transcendence eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief, demonstrating that the three pillars of Critical Realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion.

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Book Detail:
Author: Roger Trigg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631197478
Size: 71.43 MB
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Release Date: 1998-06-08
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Rationality And Religion eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Rationality and Religion deals with the perennial question of how far religious faith needs reason.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Bissett Pratt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 14.90 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1907
Category: Faith
Language: en
View: 1912
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Download PDF The Psychology Of Religious Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Cornwell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847065481
Size: 20.44 MB
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Release Date: 2009-07-25
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Philosophers And God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A series of philosophers reflect upon the status and sources of their religion and spiritual sympathies. They rise above the rancour of recent debates fuelled by secular critics such as Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens to reclaim the essential capacity of religion to touch the hearts and minds of a diverse global audience.

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Book Detail:
Author: Timothy Keller
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101217650
Size: 56.13 MB
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Release Date: 2008-02-14
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Reason For God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek). Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, and potent reasoning, Keller explains how the belief in a Christian God is, in fact, a sound and rational one. To true believers he offers a solid platform on which to stand their ground against the backlash to religion created by the Age of Skepticism. And to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, he provides a challenging argument for pursuing the reason for God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gregg L. Frazer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780700618453
Size: 61.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2012
Category: Founding Fathers of the United States
Language: en
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Download PDF The Religious Beliefs Of America S Founders eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The first comprehensive analysis of the Founders' religious beliefs as they themselves expressed them. Contends that they were neither what contemporary secularists nor what contemporary Christians often wish they were--that is, neither deist nor Christian.

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Book Detail:
Author: Nicolas G. Mertens
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781560728955
Size: 30.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2000
Category: Belief and doubt
Language: en
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Download PDF An Essay On Faith Reason And Human Nature eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Discusses questions such as, what is knowledge, what qualifies as knowledge, and what does not; what does it mean to say, "I know, I understand," what is truth, and what is certainty? When can we affirm and be certain that -- I know this or that, this or that is a universal truth I can rely upon, and I know that it so because I have a method and at least one criterion to determine that this or that is indeed a universal truth. Furthermore, how do knowledge and understanding compare with belief: Are there evidences so compelling that, in certain cases, propositions of the form 'I know that X' are indeed expressions of knowledge, and in other cases merely expressions of opinions and/or beliefs? Can the words 'belief', 'understanding', and 'knowledge' be used interchangeably? And by the way, what role does reason play in our endeavours to seek knowledge? And what role does human nature play in that endeavour?

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Paine
Publisher: Great Books in Philosophy
ISBN:
Size: 61.20 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1984
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF The Age Of Reason eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Thomas Paine, defender of freedom, independence, and rational common sense during America's turbulent revolutionary period, offers insights into religion which ring sharply true more than two centuries later. This unabridged edition of The Age of Reason sets forth Paine's provocative observations on the place of religion in society.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Rice
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725233150
Size: 77.24 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2013-05-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Reason The Contours Of Faith eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Can reason and religion get together? Should believers think? Can thinking people believe? Does religion have to make sense? Does careful thinking help or hinder religious experience? People have wrestled with such questions for hundreds of years, and they are just as perplexing today as ever. Reason & the Contours of Faith explores the wide-ranging issues these questions raise, from biblical interpretation and proofs for God's existence to the nature of religious conversion. Its central purpose is to find an alternative to both fideism, the idea that reason has nothing to do with faith, and rationalism, the conviction that reason has everything to do with it. Part One, "Reason and the Contents of Faith," argues that reason contributes in important but limited ways to our understanding of religion. Part Two, "Reason and the Experience of Faith," shows that reason can support religious commitment, but never produces it.

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Book Detail:
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher: London : Rivingtons
ISBN:
Size: 36.26 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 1870
Category: Christianity
Language: en
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Download PDF The Origin And Development Of Religious Belief eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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