Warranted Christian Belief [e-book]
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: e-book
ISBN-13: 9780585352671
Table of contents: title: Part I : Is there a question?; title: 1. Kant; title: I. The problem; title: II. Kant; title: A. Two worlds or one?; title: B. Arguments or reasons?; title: 2. Kaufman and Hick; title: I. Kaufman; title: A. The real referent and the available referent; title: B. The function of religious language; title: II. Hick; title: A. The real; title: B. Coherent?; title: C. Religiously relevant?; title: D. Is there such a thing?; title: Part II : What is the question?; title: 3. Justification and the classical picture; title: I. John Locke; title: A. Living by reason; title: B. Revelation; title: II. Classical evidentialism, deontologism, and foundationalism; title: A. Classical foundationalism; title: B. Classical deontologism; title: III. Back to the present; title: IV. Problems with the classical picture; title: A. Self-referential problems; title: B. Most of our beliefs unjustified?; title: V. Christian belief justified; title: VI. Analogical variations; title: A. Variations on classical foundationalism; title: B. Variations on the deontology; title: C. Is this the de jure question?; title: 4. Rationality; title: I. Some assorted versions of rationality; title: A. Aristotelian rationality; title: B. Rationality as proper function; title: C. The deliverances of reason; title: D. Means-end rationality; title: II. Alstonian practical rationality; title: A. The initial question; title: B. Doxastic practices; title: C. Epistemic circularity; title: D. The argument for practical rationality; title: E. Practical rationality initially characterized; title: F. The original position; title: G. the wide original position; title: H. A narrow original position?; title: 5. Warrant and the Freud-and-Marx complaint; title: I. The F & M complaint; title: A. Freud; title: B. Marx; title: C. Others; title: D. How shall we understand the F & M complaint?; title: II. Warrant : the sober truth; title: III. The F & M complaint again; title: Part III : Warranted Christian belief.; title: 6. Warranted belief in God; title: I. The Aquinas/Calvin model; title: A. Models; title: B. Presentation of the model; title: II. Is belief in God warrant-basic?; title: A. If false, probably not; title: B. If true, probably so; title: III. The de jure question is not independent of the de facto question; title: IV. The F & M complaint revisited; title: 7. Sin and its cognitive consequences; title: I. Preliminaries; title: II. Initial statement of the extended model; title: III. The nature of sin; title: IV. The noetic effects of sin; title: A. The basic consequence; title: B. Sin and knowledge; title: 8. The extended Aquinas/Calvin model : revealed to our minds; title: I. Faith; title: II. How does faith work?; title: III. Faith and positive epistemic status; title: IV. Proper basicality and the role of scripture; title: V. Comparison with Locke; title: VI. Why necessary?; title: VII. Cognitive renewal; title: 9. The testimonial model : sealed upon our hearts; title: I. Belief and affection; title: II. Jonathan Edwards; title: A. Intellect and will : which is prior?; title: B. The affirmations of faith; title: III. Analogue of warrant; title: IV. Eros; title: 10. Objections; title: I. Warrant and the argument from religious experience; title: II. What can experience show?; title: III. A killer argument?; title: IV. Son of Great Pumpkin?; title: V. Circularity?; title: Part IV : Defeaters?; title: 11. Defeaters and defeat; title: I. Nature of defeaters; title: II. Defeaters for Christian or theistic belief; title: III. Projective theories a defeater for Christian belief?; title: 12. Two (or more) kinds of scripture scholarship; title: I. Scripture divinely inspired; title: II. Traditional Christian biblical commentary; title: III. Historical biblical criticism; title: A. Varieties of historical biblical criticism; title: B. Tensions with traditional Christianity; title: IV. Why aren't most Christians more concerned?; title: A. Force majeure; title: B. A moral imperative?; title: C. Historical biblical criticism more inclusive?; title: V. Nothing to be concerned about; title: A. Troeltschian historical biblical criticism again; title: B. Non-Troeltschian historical biblical criticism; title: C. Conditionalization; title: VI. Concluding coda; title: 13. Postmodernism and pluralism; title: I. Postmodernism; title: A. Is postmodernism inconsistent with Christian belief?; title: B. Do these claims defeat Christian belief?; title: C. Postmodernism a failure of nerve; title: II. Pluralism; title: A. A probabilistic defeater?; title: B. The charge of moral arbitrariness; title: 14. Suffering and evil; title: I. Evidential atheological arguments; title: A. Rowe's arguments; title: B. Draper's argument; title: II. Nonargumentative defeaters?