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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: philosophy of faith
    sub title: belief, truth and varieties of commitment
  name:
    name part: Malcolm, Finlay
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Scott, Michael
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 174 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Faith occupies an important place in human lives. It can be directed towards God, friends, political systems and sports teams, and is said to help people through crises and to motivate people to achieve life goals. But what is faith? Philosophers and theologians have, for centuries, been concerned with questions about the rationality of faith, but more recently, have focused on what kind of psychological attitude faith is. The authors of this book bring together, for the first time, the different elements of this recent debate, staking out the different positions and arguments and defending a novel 'true grit' theory of faith, from which the rationality and language of faith are addressed from a fresh perspective. The book engages with a range of questions about the nature of faith, including does faith require belief? Is faith motivational? What is the relationship between faith, trust and hope? Do expressions of faith aim at the truth? And, in what sense is faith resilient? The authors defend a distinctive conception of faith involving resistance to psychological, practical and epistemic challenges, from which a novel account of the psychology and epistemology of faith is developed. The treatment of the topic draws extensively on the philosophy of mind, language and religion, and provides a map for newcomers to the philosophy of faith to this exciting field of study. A Philosophy of Faith will appeal to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and epistemology who are interested in the topic of faith.
  note: Finlay Malcolm and Michael Scott.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Belief and doubt
  classification: BD215 .M275 2023
  classification: 121/.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge studies in the philosophy of religion
  identifier: 9781032164540
  identifier: 1032164549
  identifier: 9781032181486
  identifier: 1032181486
  identifier: 9781003253099
  identifier: 2022006892
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220211
    record change date: 20221214145403.4
    record identifier: in00004607019