The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious EpistemologyCambridge University Press, 7 avr. 2008 Three questions motivate this book's account of evidence for the existence of God. First, if God's existence is hidden, why suppose He exists at all? Second, if God exists, why is He hidden, particularly if God seeks to communicate with people? Third, what are the implications of divine hiddenness for philosophy, theology, and religion's supposed knowledge of God? This book answers these questions using a new account of evidence and knowledge of divine reality that challenges scepticism about God's existence. The central thesis is that we should expect evidence of divine reality to be purposively available to humans, that is, available only in a manner suitable to divine purposes in self-revelation. This lesson generates a seismic shift in our understanding of evidence and knowledge of divine reality. The result is a much-needed reorienting of religious epistemology to accommodate the character and purposes of an authoritative, perfectly loving God. |
Expressions et termes fréquents
acquiring truth alethic answer skeptics arbitrariness aren’t ascription avoiding error beg questions begging those questions belief-forming sources challenge can’t coherently challenge regarding challenged skeptics circles in justification coconut cognitively comprehensive skeptical challenge concept or strat concerns convincingly demand incoherence dislike dispute by skeptics divine reality epis epistemic aptness epistemic burden epistemic justification epistemic kinds epistemic rationality epistemic value epistemically circular arguments epistemology evidence-based belief evidence-related terms inevitable intelligible comprehensive questions judicious truth-seekers justified beliefs justified in holding justified true belief kind of discrimination kind of epistemic know theory least mean by epistemic minimal reliability Moser no-questionbegging challenge non-questionbegging justification non-questionbegging reason non-questionbegging truth-indicator nondoxastic nonpropositional nonskeptics offering support perception permissibility of question position possibly defeasible properly proposition question begging question by skeptics question the reliability Reliabilists rely reply to skeptics semantic intentions skep skeptic's burden skeptical questions Sosa Sosa’s success-connection tion truth and avoiding truth or reliability truth-acquisition truth-makers