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Gottesglaube as Glaubenstrotz. The concessive structure of the Christian religious attitude
The topic of the present reflection is Christian religious belief. Specifically, we will use Husserlian tools in order to examine the positional...
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Warranted Eastern Christian Belief: Extending Plantinga’s Extended AC Model
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Michael DeVito develop a thoroughly original and Orthodox model for how Christian belief, and, even specifically Eastern...
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Knowledge and Belief
The different assessments of knowledge and belief provided by the Western philosophical tradition, on the one hand, and by the Abrahamic religious...
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The (Father Almighty) God We Worship: The Epistemological Role of Liturgy in Christian Theology
In this paper I will argue that Christian theology is rooted in liturgical practices, being theology the theoretical reflection on the ritual...
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Childhood Animism and Innate Belief
Childhood animism is a phenomenon that has been a focus of study in developmental psychology since Jean Piaget’s groundbreaking studies beginning in...
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Belief in God
This chapter focuses on two important questions: What is God? And what does it mean to believe in God? It begins with Billy Graham’s popular account...
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Religious Belief
This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take. Two primary forms are discussed: propositional or doctrinal belief, and...
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When Pain Becomes an Expression of Love: a Phenomenological Analysis of Self-inflicted Pain Among Christian Monastic Ascetics in Central Medieval Europe
This paper shows how self-inflicted pain enabled the expression of love for God among Christian monastic flagellant ascetics in medieval central...
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Belief in robust temporal passage (probably) does not explain future-bias
Empirical work has lately confirmed what many philosophers have taken to be true: people are ‘biased toward the future’. All else being equal, we...
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Julián Marías on Resurrection and the Call for Christian Salvation
This chapter analyses Marías’s argumentation for concluding that my (each one’s) conscious hope for Christian Salvation through Resurrection is...
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The Challenge of Mysticism: a Primer from a Christian Perspective
In this article, I discuss the relevance of the study of mysticism for Christian analytic theologians and philosophers of religion. I begin with a...
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Christian physicalism and the biblical argument for dualism
This paper examines whether biblical descriptions of the intermediate state imply dualism of the sort that rules out physicalism. Certain passages in...
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Julián Marías and Miguel de Unamuno on Christian Salvation and the Call for Personal Immortality
This chapter contrasts Julián Marías’s and Miguel de Unamuno’s positions with regard to Christian Salvation and the call for personal immortality. It...
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Divine Revelation and Justification of Belief in God: a Comparative Study of the Views of Paul Moser and Mulla Sadra
The present article analyzes and compares the idea of divine revelation to justify religious beliefs from the viewpoints of Paul Moser and Mulla...
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Implicit Belief
“Implicit belief” has an ordinary sense and a theological sense. The concern of this chapter is its theological sense, importantly developed by St....
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Hume Against Christian Natural Theology and Analogical Reasoning on God
This chapter reconstructes the main points of Hume’s criticism of the design argument and of Christian natural theology in a historical context,...
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Belief in Relics
A relic is a part of the body of a saint or martyr or holy person, or a piece of their clothing, or a piece of the cross. Relics are venerated in...