Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion

ISBN-13: 9781107062405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 216 str.

Professor William J. Wainwright

Opis

The book presents a novel defense of the beneficial epistemic effect that extra logical features can have on the assessment of religious arguments.

Recenzje

'… this is an important and valuable book for those working at the intersection of philosophy, religious studies, and theology.' Robert MacSwain, Reading Religion

Spis treści

1. Four examples of religious reasoning; 2. The purposes of argument and person-relativity of proofs; 3. Religious reading and theological argument; 4. Passional reasoning; 5. The role of rhetoric in religious argumentation; 6. Reason, revelation, and religious argumentation; 7. Theology and mystery.