The Justification of Religious Faith in Soren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James / Paul Sands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sands, Paul, author.

Series:

Gorgias Studies in Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, William, 1842-1910.

James, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 293 pages).

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the religious epistemologies of Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, and William James in the light of contemporary challenges to religious faith. They defended the right of persons to embrace religious beliefs that are not strictly warranted by empirical evidence and logical argumentation. Faith must not be hampered, they argued, by the demands of reason narrowly conceived. Paul Sands notes, however, important differences in the way each relates faith to reason. Sands examines the religious epistemologies of Kierkegaard, Newman, and James in the context of two "givens" characteristic of early twenty-first century culture, namely, the intellectual hegemony of probabilism and the pluralization of the Western mind.

Contents:

Frontmatter

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

1. Introduction

2. Søren Kierkegaard and the Venture of Faith

3. John Henry Newman and the Divinatory Mind

4. William James and the Will to Believe

5. Conclusions

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781463236441

1463236441

OCLC:

1100431365