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On Christian Belief A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context
By Andrew Collier
Copyright 2003
136 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
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Routledge
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"On Christian Belief" offers a defense of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief--with particular reference to Christian belief--unlike any other kind of belief, is cognitive; making claims about what is real, and open to rational discussion between believers and non-believers. The author begins by providing a critique of several views which either try to describe... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Faith without belief I; Chapter 2 Faith without belief II; Chapter 3 Non-cognitive grounds for belief; Chapter 4 The intelligibility of conversion; Chapter 5 About knowledge in general; Chapter 6 About religious knowledge; Chapter 7 The content of Christian revelation; Chapter 8 The knowledge of God as creator;
Biography
Andrew Collier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and has previously lectured at Warwick, Sussex and Bangor universities. His recent publications include Being and Worth, which extends realism to ethics, and Christianity and Marxism, which aims to reconcile these two world views.
