Rationality and religious commitment /
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| Author / Creator: | Audi, Robert, 1941- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | xvi, 311 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8515779 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Four Epistemological Standards: Rationality and Reasonableness, Justification and Knowledge
- 1. Rationality in Thought and Action
- I. The contours of rationality
- II. Rationality and reasons: theoretical and practical
- III. The practical authority of theoretical reason
- IV. Rationality and its experiential grounds
- V. Rationality, reasoning, and responsiveness to experience
- 2. Justification, Knowledge, and Reasonableness
- I. Rationality and justification
- II. Rationality as normatively more permissive than justification
- III. Justification and knowledge
- IV. Reasonableness
- V. Rationality and reasonableness in the aesthetic domain
- VI. The normative appraisal of religious commitments
- Part II. The Dimensions of Rational Religious Commitment
- 3. Belief, Faith, Acceptance, and Hope
- I. The nature and varieties of faith
- II. Conditions for rational faith: a preliminary sketch
- III. Fiducial faith
- IV. Acceptance
- V. Faith, belief, and hope: some normative contrasts
- 4. The Diversity of Religious Commitment
- I. Religious commitment in the context of existential narratives
- II. Attitudinal and volitional elements in religious commitments
- III. Institutional aspects of religious conduct
- IV. Degrees of religious commitment
- 5. Experiential and Pragmatic Aspects of Religious Commitments
- I. Religious experiences as possible support for theism
- II. Perceptual religious experiences
- III. The normative authority of religious experience
- IV. The pragmatic dimension of support for religious commitment
- V. The doxastic practice approach to defending the rationality of theism
- VI. Religious experience, fiducial attitudes, and religious conduct
- Part III. Religion, Theology, and Morality
- 6. Religious Commitment and Moral Obligation
- I. Divine command ethics
- II. Divine commandedness versus divine commandability
- III. Divine commandability, obligation, and the good
- IV. The autonomy of ethics and the moral authority of God
- V. Religiously grounded conduct
- 7. Religious Integration and Human Flourishing
- I. The scope of religious integration
- II. Sociopolitical aspects of religious integration
- III. Natural theology and the obligations of citizenship
- IV. Theism and the scientific habit of mind
- V. The aesthetic dimension of religious commitment
- Part IV. The Rationality of Religious Commitment in the Postmodern World
- 8. Internal Challenges to the Rationality of Religious Commitment
- I. The divine attributes
- II. Pluralism, defeasibility, and rationality
- III. Rational religious disagreement, skepticism, and humility
- 9. The Problem of Evil
- I. A conception of the problem of evil
- II. The axiology of good and evil
- III. A theocentric versus a cosmocentric approach to the problem
- IV. Moral evil in a world under God
- V. Theological choiceworthiness
- VI. Natural evil
- VII. Dimensions of divine knowledge
- 10. The Challenge of Naturalism
- I. Philosophical naturalism
- II. Scientific explanation and cosmological perplexity
- III. Personhood, mental substance, and embodiment
- IV. The possibility of divine embodiment
- V. Mental causation and mentalistic explanation
- VI. Causation, causal explanation, and causal power
- VII. The causal closure versus the causal sufficiency of the physical world
- VIII. Intellectual economy and the scientific approach to the world
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
