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

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

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Author / Creator:	Bishop, John, 1930-
Imprint:	Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	xii, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophical theology. Faith and reason -- Christianity. Reformed epistemology. Christian ethics. Christian ethics. Faith and reason -- Christianity. Philosophical theology. Reformed epistemology.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6377346

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ISBN:	019920554X (alk. paper) 9780199205547 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-236) and index. Also available on the Internet.

Table of Contents:

Preface
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. Conclusion: a moral preference for modest fideism?
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