A Reassessment Of Absolute Skepticism And Religious Faith

Author : Jay G. Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Reassessment of Absolute Skepticism and Religious Faith written by Jay G. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of claims to knowledge by the physical and social sciences, history, ethics and theology leads to the conclusion that humans can never claim certainty for any of their opinions.

Author : Henry Rogers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eclipse of Faith written by Henry Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Rogers
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eclipse of Faith written by Henry Rogers and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1852 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rhodes, Ron
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736932518
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Answering the Objections of Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics written by Rhodes, Ron and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Foster
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0890516510
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meet the Skeptic written by Bill Foster and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Skeptic is a new approach to apologetics and evangelism that organizes a non-believer's objections into four basic root ideas. Learn how to effectively share your Christian faith without reaching for comebacks and offering "churchisms." This new approach to apologetics and evangelism is written for teens, college students and adults. A leader's guide and workbook are available for church and educational classroom settings. Are you equipped to handle the skeptic's questions?

Author : Daniel Boscaljon
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813934656
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vigilant Faith written by Daniel Boscaljon and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism. He proposes a model of faith for believers and unbelievers alike—a passionate agnosticism—that is rooted in a skeptical consciousness. Skepticism and faith are structurally similar, he writes, in that they share an "unknowing" quality. The author argues that vigilance—the act of keeping watch, a spiritual practice in its own right—is as necessary a precondition for the structure of faith as it is for the structure of skepticism. A suspension in uncertainty and an openness to possibility require vigilance, he attests, if faith and skepticism are to avoid the often dogmatic tendencies of both theism and atheism to cling to their own brands of certainty and knowledge. Boscaljon has three aims: to expand the current, post-theistic definitions of God for greater relevance to human beings on an individual and existential level; to integrate skepticism into faith so that it will restore the importance of faith to current theology and recover it from anti-intellectual bias; and to conceptualize the vigilance of faith in such a way that can provide a vocabulary for distinguishing "good faith" from "bad faith." He offers a variety of cultural examples ranging from film to poetry to represent a life of faith and to show how its components come together in practice. As an alternative to the prevailing fundamentalisms in today's world, his book proposes a paradigmatic understanding of faith in which theism, atheism, and agnosticism refuse to differ.

Author : Henry Rogers
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ISBN 13 : 1406839973
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eclipse of Faith Or a Visit to a Religious Sceptic written by Henry Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. L. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465133
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom to Doubt written by J. L. Schellenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a species, there is no reasonable choice but to withhold judgment about the existence of an ultimate salvific reality. Schellenberg defends this conclusion against arguments from religious experience and naturalistic arguments that might seem to make either religious belief or religious disbelief preferable to his skeptical stance. In so doing, he canvasses virtually all of the important recent work on the epistemology of religion. Of particular interest is his call for at least skepticism about theism, the most common religious claim among philosophers. The Wisdom to Doubt expands the author's well-known hiddenness argument against theism and situates it within a larger atheistic argument, itself made to serve the purposes of his broader skeptical case. That case need not, on Schellenberg's view, lead to a dead end but rather functions as a gateway to important new insights about intellectual tasks and religious possibilities.

Author : J. L. Schellenberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801458021
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Will to Imagine written by J. L. Schellenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of religious faith. Where other works treat religious skepticism as a dead end, The Will to Imagine argues that skepticism is the only point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry—and in religion itself—can be made. For Schellenberg, our immaturity as a species not only makes justified religious belief impossible but also provides the appropriate context for a type of faith response grounded in imagination rather than belief, directed not to theism but to ultimism, the heart of religion. This new and nonbelieving form of faith, he demonstrates, is quite capable of nourishing an authentic religious life while allowing for inquiry into ways of refining the generic idea that shapes its commitments. A singular feature of Schellenberg's book is his claim, developed in detail, that unsuccessful believers' arguments can successfully be recast as arguments for imaginative faith. Out of the rational failure of traditional forms of religious belief, The Will to Imagine fashions an unconventional form of religion better fitted, Schellenberg argues, to the human species as it exists today and as we may hope it will evolve.

Author : Gary Gutting
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism written by Gary Gutting and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: