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Ninian Smart and the justification of religious doctrinal schemes

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1982
In Reasons and Faiths,1 Ninian Smart proposes a set of principles by which to evaluate competing religious doctrinal schemes.2 His primary interest is in comparatively appraising religious systems containing both the numinous and the mystical strands of doctrine. A strand of doctrine is an ideological theme perpetuated in a doctrinal scheme by means of
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Ninian Smart on World Religions

2017
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The Exploration of Mysticism By Ninian Smart

2006
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Smart, Ninian (1927–2001)

2012
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Phenomenology and Ninian Smart's philosophy of religion

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1978
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A Smart Teacher: A Reminiscence of Ninian Smart

Religion, 2001
(2001). A Smart Teacher: A Reminiscence of Ninian Smart. Religion: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 323-324.
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Religion, Reason and Ninian Smart

Religious Studies, 1973
The major religions are committed to incompatible world-views. Are there criteria available on the basis of which we can rationally decide among these sets of religious beliefs? Ninian Smart in Reasons and Faiths assumes that there is no a priori reason to suppose that such criteria are not possible or unavailable, and sets out a procedure for the ...
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Ninian Smart And The Phenomenology Of Religion

1999
Abstract In chapter 1 asked the reader to consider a spectrum of usages for the words ‘religion’ and ‘religions’. At one end of the spectrum the R-word is used by comparative religionists who derive their program from Mueller, Otto, and others. Sharpe’s history of comparative religion (which I looked at in the previous chapter) indicated
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Are Ninian Smart's Temptations Irresistible?

Philosophy, 1962
Mr Ninian Smart distinguishes what he calls the Utopia Thesis from the Compatibility Thesis. The latter he formulates as the contention: ‘that causal determinism (i.e. the claim that all human actions are the results of prior causes) is compatible with free will.’ The former is ‘the assertion that God could have created men wholly good’.
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Smart, (Roderick) Ninian (1927–2001), scholar of religions

2005
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