Religious ambiguity and religious diversity / Robert McKim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKim, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt.

Hidden God.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Religious pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text argues that beliefs about religious matters ought to be held tentatively and with an awareness that these beliefs may be wrong. It suggests a compromise that will preserve much of what matters to the various disagreeing communities.

Contents:

Contents; Part I: The Hiddenness of God; 1 The Hiddenness of God: Introduction ; 1. What Does It Mean to Say that God is Hidden?; 2. Two Competing Tendencies; 3. Reasons for Believing That God Is Hidden from Everyone; 4. The Disadvantages of God's Hiddenness; 5. Unsatisfactory Responses to God's Hiddenness; 6. Classifying Theistic Responses to the Hiddenness of God; 7. Ambiguity; 2 God's Hiddenness and the Possibility of Moral Action; 1. The Importance of Being Responsible; 2. Kant on the Need for God to Be Hidden If Morality Is to Be Possible

3. The Importance of Being Able to be Immoral: Swinburne4. Mesle's Objections; 5. Schellenberg's Objections; 6. Conclusion; 3 God's Hiddenness, Freedom to Believe, and Attitude Problems; 1. God's Hiddenness and Freedom to Believe; 2. Penelhum's Objection; 3. Responses to Penelhum's Objection; 4. The Varieties of Religious Belief; 5. Responses to the ""Varieties Objection""; 6. The Trouble with Cryptovolitionalism; 7. Attitude Problems; 8. The Problematic Attitudes; 9. Problems; 4 Trust and Other Goods of Mystery; 1. Divine Hiddenness and Human Trust: Adams and Adams; 2. Varieties of Trust

3. Some Other Alleged Goods of Mystery4. Unknown Goods of Mystery; 5. Implications of the Possibility of Unknown Goods of Mystery; 5 The Hiddenness of God and Arguments for Atheism; 1. The Case for Epistemic Atheism; 2. Being Well Situated Epistemically; 3. Having ""No Good Evidence"" for p; 4. Schellenberg's Case for Atheism: The Central Argument; 5. Objections to Schellenberg's Argument; 6. The Possibility of a Cumulative Case; 6 The Hiddenness of God: Implications; 1. The Hidden Emperor; 2. Implications of God's Hiddenness; 3. Explaining God's Hiddenness

4. The Balance of Goods and the Importance of Belief5. Disaster Avoidance; 6. Disaster Avoidance, the Hiddenness of God, and the Importance of Belief; 7. God's Hiddenness and Tentative Theistic Belief; Part II: Religious Diversity; 7: Religious Diversity: Introduction; 1. ""The Other Side""; 2. Disagreement about Religion; 3. Deep and Widespread Disagreement; 4. Importance; 5. The Critical Stance: The E-Principle and the T-Principle; 6. Allies and Anticipations; 7. Examining Beliefs; 8. Observations on the E-Principle and on Its Implications for Beliefs about Religion

8 The Critical Stance I: Tentative Religious Belief1. Tentative Religious Belief; 2. But Can Religious Belief Be Tentative?; 3. Tentative Belief and the Prospects for Commitment; 4. Tentative Belief and Cognitive Commitment; 5. Audi's Proposals; 6. Tentative Belief and Tolerance; 9 The Critical Stance II: Arguments and Objections; 1. The Appeal to Ambiguity; 2. The Appeal to the Integrity of Others and to Respect for Others; 3. The Appeal to the Possibility of a Compromise; 4. The Import of These Considerations; 5. Objections; 6. Conclusion; 10 Religious Experience and Religious Belief

1. Experience and Initial Justification

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-022126-7

0-19-802942-X

1-280-47208-1

9786610472086

1-4237-5772-6

OCLC:

922953390