Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy
- The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Faith and Rationality
- 1 Natural Theology and Religious Belief
- 2 Evidence and Religious Belief
- 3 Reformed Epistemology
- 4 Rationality and Miracles
- 5 Pragmatic Arguments for Theism
- 6 Skepticism, Fideism, and Religious Epistemology
- 7 The Problem of Faith and Reason
- Part II Religious Traditions
- Part III New Directions
- References
- Index
6 - Skepticism, Fideism, and Religious Epistemology
from Part I - Faith and Rationality
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
- Cambridge Handbooks in Philosophy
- The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Faith and Rationality
- 1 Natural Theology and Religious Belief
- 2 Evidence and Religious Belief
- 3 Reformed Epistemology
- 4 Rationality and Miracles
- 5 Pragmatic Arguments for Theism
- 6 Skepticism, Fideism, and Religious Epistemology
- 7 The Problem of Faith and Reason
- Part II Religious Traditions
- Part III New Directions
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the relationship between skeptical themes and debates concerning the rationality of religious belief. This relationship manifests itself not only in terms of critiques of the rationality of religious belief, but also in prominent defenses of the rationality of religious belief, such as Lockean evidentialism, reformed epistemology, and skeptical fideism. The discussion puts particular focus on a specific form of skeptical fideism that employs an epistemic parity argument with regard to the epistemological status of religious and everyday belief. In this regard, it considers quasi-fideism, an account of the rationality of religious belief that applies a Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology to the religious case, and which has a natural affinity with skeptical fideism.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Religious Epistemology , pp. 83 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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