Fiction and the Agnostic
Consider the agnostic who thinks that reason and evidence are neutral on the question of God’s existence, and as a result neither believes that God exists nor believes that God does not exist. Can such an agnostic live a genuinely religious life - even one in which God is the central animating idea?...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue - Evolutionary Research on Morality and Theological Ethics |
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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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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 163-181 |
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Agnosticism
/ Religion
/ Fiction
/ Religious life
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion |
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