Evidence and Religious Belief

Evidence and Religious Belief
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780191619090
ISBN-13 : 0191619094
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Book Synopsis Evidence and Religious Belief by : Kelly James Clark

Download or read book Evidence and Religious Belief written by Kelly James Clark and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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