The Venture of Rational Faith
Title | The Venture of Rational Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Benson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
The Venture of Rational Faith
Title | The Venture of Rational Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Benson |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2014-03-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781497839595 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
The Venture of Rational Faith (Classic Reprint)
Title | The Venture of Rational Faith (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Benson |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2018-01-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780428377724 |
Excerpt from The Venture of Rational Faith If we have gained a standing-ground on some shore is the tide-mark above or below us? Though we see the waves lapping at our feet, rising, threatening, are we secure within that invisible barrier which holds back the waters? In every province into which faith enters, not only in the belief in God, but the trust in our friends and in our own business in life, when once standing-ground has been attained, difficulties which threatened break like waves on a rock and are given back in vapour to the air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Venture of Rational Faith
Title | The Venture of Rational Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Benson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
The Venture of Rational Faih
Title | The Venture of Rational Faih PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Benson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Christianity |
ISBN |
Faith and Reason
Title | Faith and Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald H. Nash |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 1994-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780310294016 |
This book explores philosophical questions that have important implications for the truth and rationality of the Christian faith.
Believing by Faith
Title | Believing by Faith PDF eBook |
Author | John Bishop |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2007-04-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 019152557X |
Can it be justifiable to commit oneself 'by faith' to a religious claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total available evidence? In Believing by Faith, John Bishop defends a version of fideism inspired by William James's 1896 lecture 'The Will to Believe'. By critiquing both 'isolationist' (Wittgensteinian) and Reformed epistemologies of religious belief, Bishop argues that anyone who accepts that our publicly available evidence is equally open to theistic and naturalist/atheistic interpretations will need to defend a modest fideist position. This modest fideism understands theistic commitment as involving 'doxastic venture' - practical commitment to propositions held to be true through 'passional' causes (causes other than the recognition of evidence of or for their truth). While Bishop argues that concern about the justifiability of religious doxastic venture is ultimately moral concern, he accepts that faith-ventures can be morally justifiable only if they are in accord with the proper exercise of our rational epistemic capacities. Legitimate faith-ventures may thus never be counter-evidential, and, furthermore, may be made supra-evidentially only when the truth of the faith-proposition concerned necessarily cannot be settled on the basis of evidence. Bishop extends this Jamesian account by requiring that justifiable faith-ventures should also be morally acceptable both in motivation and content. Hard-line evidentialists, however, insist that all religious faith-ventures are morally wrong. Bishop thus conducts an extended debate between fideists and hard-line evidentialists, arguing that neither side can succeed in establishing the irrationality of its opposition. He concludes by suggesting that fideism may nevertheless be morally preferable, as a less dogmatic, more self-accepting, even a more loving, position than its evidentialist rival.