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Redefining Religious Truth as a Challenge for Philosophy of Religion [PDF]

, 2012
One of the most important features of contemporary Western societies is the rise of pluralism. Whereas theism used to serve as a common ground to discuss the truth-claims of religion, this approach seems to have lost much of its plausibility. What I want
Jonkers, Peter
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David Griffin's Critique of John Hick's Viewpoint regarding Evil Problem [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2020
The problem of evil is a rational problem for theism. The root of this problem is to ask why the omnipotent and absolute benevolent God creates evil or does not prevent its genesis.
Yadollah Rostami
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]

, 2014
The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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Might God Help Explain Moral Knowledge?

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023
Although owing to proper basicality, phenomenal conservatism, and deliberative indispensability our axiomatic moral judgments seem to be prima facie justified, the question of potential undercutting defeaters can pose a challenge to moral knowledge ...
Baggett David
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Safety and Knowledge in God [PDF]

, 2014
In recent ”secular’ Epistemology, much attention has been paid to formulating an ”anti-luck’ or ”safety’ condition; it is now widely held that such a condition is an essential part of any satisfactory post-Gettier reflection on the nature of knowledge ...
Mawson, T. J.
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Sehnsucht as Signpost: The Autobiographical Impulse of C. S. Lewis

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022
For half a century, readers of C. S. Lewis had only two problematic and at times obscure spiritual autobiographies (The Pilgrim’s Regress and Surprised by Joy) to use in attempts to understand Lewis’s journey to faith through what he called Joy ...
Lazo Andrew
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In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism [PDF]

, 2011
I reply to seven objections to anthropomorphic theism: (1) That anthropomorphic theism is idolatrous. In reply I rely on the concept/conception distinction. (2) That faith requires certainty.
Forrest, Peter
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Oppy on the Argument from Consciousness: A Rejoinder [PDF]

, 2011
Graham Oppy had criticized my argument for God from consciousness (AC) in my recent book ’Consciousness and the Existence of God’ (N.Y.: Routledge, 2008). In this article I offer a rejoinder to Oppy.
Moreland, J. P.
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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]

, 2017
Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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“I believe because of evolution”: has cognitive science undermined the rationality of religious belief? [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
This article explores the implications of contemporary naturalistic theories of religion for the rationality of religious (theistic) belief. The so-called evolutionary debunking arguments attempt to undermine the rationality of a belief by appealing to ...
Kantemir Kanukoev
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