Believing by faith : an essay in the epistemology and ethics of religious belief /

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�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bishop, John (John Christopher)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Philosophical theology. Faith and reason > Christianity. Reformed epistemology. Christian ethics. Théologie philosophique. Épistémologie réformée. Foi et raison > Christianisme. PHILOSOPHY > Religious. Christian ethics Faith and reason > Christianity Philosophical theology Reformed epistemology Bewijs (wetenschap) Fideïsme. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: towards an acceptable fideism; 2 The 'justifiability' of faith-beliefs: an ultimately moral issue; 3 The epistemic justifiability of faith-beliefs: an ambiguity thesis; 4 Responses to evidential ambiguity: isolationist and Reformed epistemologies; 5 Faith as doxastic venture; 6 Believing by faith: a Jamesian position; 7 Integrationist values: limiting permissible doxastic venture; 8 Arguments for supra-evidential fideism; 9 A moral preference for modest fideism?; Bibliography; Index.