The Use Of Reason In Matters Of Religion

Author : Creighton Rosental
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462535
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from Aquinas written by Creighton Rosental and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas has long been understood to have reconciled faith and reason. Typically, he is understood as having provided justification for faith by means of proof, particularly, that the Five Ways prove the existence of God. Under this interpretation, faith becomes a species of justified belief, and the justification for faith rests upon the success of the Five Ways (or, alternatively, on the success of other justificatory evidence). In this book, Creighton Rosental argues that Aquinas¿s account of faith is not one of justified belief, at least as it is understood in contemporary philosophy. Instead, Rosental argues, faith has its own basis for epistemic ¿reasonableness¿ ¿ a reasonableness that does not derive from ordinary evidence or proof. Rather than requiring evidence accessible to the natural light of reason, Aquinas holds that faith has its own sort of ¿evidence¿¿that which results from the light of faith. Aquinas ¿Aristotelianizes¿ faith and argues that faith has the Aristotelian epistemic virtue of certitude, and in so doing reconciles faith and Aristotelian reason, at least as Aristotle was understood by Medieval philosophers. This reconciliation resolves important tensions between Aristotelian science and Christian doctrine. Further, Rosental examines three contemporary accounts of what counts as an epistemically ¿responsible¿ belief (namely, justified belief, practical rationality, and warrant) and argue that under Aquinas¿s account, faith should be counted as rational, and in an important, though modified sense, as justified. Rosental¿s book is an erudite and accessible reading of this most fundamental issue in Thomistic studies.

Author : Thomas Randolph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Reason in Matters of Religion written by Thomas Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Rust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Discourse of the Use of Reason in Matters of Religion written by George Rust and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599641
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442826
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Reason and Theology written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of Questions i-iv of St. Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius are of vital interest to the Christian philosopher and theologian. Written while Aquinas was a youthful Master of Theology, the Questions show his solidarity with Christian tradition, his wide acquaintance with Scripture and the Fathers of the Church, and his creative use of philosophy in addressing theological issues. Question i treats of the possibility of our knowing God, and the human limitations of this knowledge. Question ii concerns theology as a science which reaches out to God by faith in his revealed word and uses philosophical reasoning to throw light on the contents of revelation. In Question iii Aquinas takes up the nature of faith, showing its relation to religion and its necessity for the welfare of the human race. He argues for the catholicity or universality of the Christian faith and defends the orthodox teaching of the trinity of Persons in the one God. Question iv turns to a set of philosophical problems occasioned by Boethius' treatise on the Trinity: the factors that cause a plurality in genera, species and individuals. In this connection Aquinas makes one of his most controversial statements of the principle of individuation.

Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191536288
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Reason written by Richard Swinburne and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of the final volume of his acclaimed trilogy on philosophical theology. Faith and Reason is a self-standing examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's famous arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God. By practising a particular religion, a person seeks to achieve some or all of three goals - that he worships and obeys God, gains salvation for himself, and helps others to attain their salvation. But not all religions commend worship, and different religions have different conceptions of salvation. Faced with these differences, Richard Swinburne argues that we should practice that religion which has the best goals and is more probably true than the creeds of other religions. He proposes criteria by which to determine the probabilities of different religious creeds, and he argues that, while requiring total commitment, faith does not demand fully convinced belief. While maintaining the same structure and conclusions as the original classic, this second edition has been substantially rewritten, both in order to relate its ideas more closely to those of classical theologians and philosophers and to respond to more recent views. In particular he discusses, and ultimately rejects, the view of Alvin Plantinga that the 'warrant' of a belief depends on the process which produced it, and John Hick's contention that all religions offer valid paths to salvation.

Author : Terence Penelhum
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reason And Religious Faith written by Terence Penelhum and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1995-12-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terence Penelhum surveys traditional and contemporary views on the often troubled relationship between philosophical reason and religious faith. Covering all the major issues and figures in a clear, balanced, and fair-minded way, this is the most reliable and modern treatment of these issues now available."--BOOK JACKET

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Watts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Logic; Or, the Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Griffith
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781385637494
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book The Use and Extent of Reason in Matters of Religion. a Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Tuesday in Whitsun-Week, June 8. 1756. by Thomas Griffith M.A. written by Thomas Griffith and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T002051 Oxford: printed at the Theatre for S. Parker; and sold by J. Rivington, London, 1756. [2],25, [1]p.; 8°