The Moral and Evidential Requirements of Faith
What is the relationship between faith and evidence? It is often claimed that faith requires going beyond evidence. In this paper, I reject this claim by showing how the moral demands to have faith warrant a person in maintaining faith in the face of counter-evidence, and by showing how the moral de...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 117-142 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Faith
/ Moral necessity
/ Irrationality
/ Beweisbarkeit
/ Rationality
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality |
| Further subjects: | B
Belief
B Action B going beyond evidence B moral demands B Faith |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |