The Trustworthiness of Religious Experience
Author | : Elton Trueblood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Experience (Religion) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elton Trueblood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Experience (Religion) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Elton Trueblood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598895943 |
Author | : Kai-man Kwan |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144117401X |
Defends a new type of epistemology, the Critical Trust Approach, and then applies it to the experience of God in the contemporary multicultural context.
Author | : Michael Martin |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780877229438 |
In this book Michael Martin provides logical reasons for being an atheist. Carefully examining the current debate in Anglo-American analytic philosophy regarding God's existence, Martin presents a comprehensive critique of the arguments for the existence of God and a defense of arguments against the existence of God, showing in detail their relevance to atheism. Claiming that atheism is a rational position while theistic beliefs are not, he relies both on logic and evidence and confines his efforts to showing the irrationality of belief in a personal supreme being who is omniscient, omnipotent, perfect, and the creator of heaven and earth. The author's approach is two-fold. By presenting and criticizing arguments that have been advanced in favor of belief, he makes a case for "negative atheism." By offering arguments against atheism and defending it from these attacks, he presents a case for "positive atheism." Along the way, he confronts the views of numerous philosophers—among them Anselm, Aquinas, Plantinga, Hick, and Swinburne—and refutes both classical and contemporary arguments that have been advanced through the history of this debate. In his conclusion, Martin considers what would and would not follow if his main arguments were widely accepted, and he defines and distinguishes atheism from other "isms" and movements. Building on the work of religious skeptics and atheists of the past and present, he justifies his reconstruction of this philosophical dispute by citing some of the most interesting and important arguments for atheism and criticisms of arguments for the existence of God that have appeared in recent journal articles and have yet to be systematically addressed. Author note: Michael Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and author of several books, including The Legal Philosophy of H.L.A. Hart: A Critical Appraisal and The Case Against Christianity (both from Temple).
Author | : William P. Alston |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0801471257 |
In Perceiving God, William P. Alston offers a clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience. He 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 among laypersons and famous mystics, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience. Through the perception that God is sustaining one in being, for example, one can justifiably believe that God is indeed sustaining one in being. Alston offers a detailed discussion of our grounds for taking sense perception and other sources of belief—including introspection, memory, and mystical experience—to be reliable and to confer justification. He then uses this epistemic framework to explain how our perceptual beliefs about God can be justified. Alston carefully addresses objections to his chief claims, including problems posed by non-Christian religious traditions. He also examines the way in which mystical perception fits into the larger picture of grounds for religious belief. Suggesting that religious experience, rather than being a purely subjective phenomenon, has real cognitive value, Perceiving God will spark intense debate and will be indispensable reading for those interested in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and philosophy of mind, as well as for theologians.
Author | : Charles Buck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Conversion |
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Author | : Peter Donovan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Experience (Religion) |
ISBN | : |
This book is written in answer to the common statement: "Studying and talking about religion may be well and good, but it's the experience that counts." The author takes a good look at the various types of religious experiences abroad in the world today and how they relate to interpretation and knowledge of the Christian faith. Can one know from experience? Can one argue from experience? How can one explain religious experiences which defy human interpretation? These are some of the questions dealt with in this informative book. --
Author | : Francis Lorette Strickland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Experience (Religion) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Piippo |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2017-12-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1973610922 |
This is a book about the primacy and centrality of God and his unsurpassable presence, and what this means for the Church. The presence of God is the core, the sine qua non, of mere Christianity. Gods presence is what is needed to win the day over the present powers of darkness. This book shows what it means for a church to be presence-driven, and what leadership looks like in the presence-driven church.
Author | : Sheela Pawar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2016-02-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317006135 |
Trusting Others, Trusting God is an investigation of the concepts of moral and religious trust. The question of why or how it is rational to trust anyone has been the typical focus of philosophers, with an underlying assumption that trust must be justified. In most cases, trust (even - or perhaps especially religious trust) is portrayed as irrational. Sheela Pawar argues that a grammatical investigation of the concept of trust can help rectify this mistreatment.