The Rationality Of Theism (studies In Philosophy And Religion) (volume 19)

In May 1998, a distinguished group of philosophers met in Munich to discuss the rationality of theism. This volume is a collection of the papers read at that conference. While in recent years the rationality of theistic belief has been widely discussed, the Munich conference was an event of some moment in the history of philosophical dialogue: for the first time German- and English-speaking philosophers of religion, representatives of both the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, joined together to grapple with a common philosophical theme. This multiplicity of perspectives brought a unique richness to the analysis of rationality that no one tradition by itself could provide. Readers will find that richness displayed in the pages of this book. Professional philosophers will find here a great deal to stimulate and challenge them; but graduate students, capable undergraduates, and all others with a serious interest in the philosophy of religion will be well rewarded for their efforts to come to grips with these thought-provoking papers. Front Matter....Pages 1-10 The Rationality of Christian Theism....Pages 11-19 Many Kinds of Rational Theistic Belief....Pages 21-38 The Rationality of Theistic Belief and the Concept of Truth....Pages 39-60 Belief and the Logic of Religious Commitment....Pages 61-83 A New Argument for the Existence of God: One that Works, Well, Sort of....Pages 85-103 Towards a Rehabilitation of Aquinas’s “Third Way”....Pages 105-123 Warranted Christian Belief: The Aquinas/Calvin Model....Pages 125-143 Christian Belief and Platonic Rationality....Pages 145-159 “Perspicuous Representation” and the Analogy of Experience....Pages 161-175 Phronesis and Christian Belief....Pages 177-194 The Negative and Positive Task of Reason in Relation to Religious Attitudes....Pages 195-213 Proper Basicality and the Evidential Significance of Internalist Defeat: A Proposal for Revising Classical Evidentialism....Pages 215-236 The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief....Pages 237-254 Rationality and Reason....Pages 255-269 Back Matter....Pages 271-280