A01=Andrew Collier
Agnostic
Author_Andrew Collier
Bare Feeling
beliefs
Blind Feeling
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Category=QRAB
Category=QRM
Category=QRVG
cognitive
cognitive approach to faith debates
Conceptual Truths
conversion
conversion theory
Correct Hearsay
epistemology
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eq_isMigrated=2
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Eternal Laws
Follow
gods
Good Life
Held
Indubitable Premisses
Irrational Phobias
John's Teaching
John’s Teaching
natural
nature
Noetic Structure
Non-cognitive Account
Non-cognitive Grounds
Noncognitive Account
philosophy of religion
Plantinga's Account
Plantinga’s Account
radical
Radical Conversion
rational faith
Reliable Hearsay
religion
Religious Knowledge
religious realism
revealed
Rhodesian Ridgeback
testimony and knowledge
theology
Thomas Aquinas
Underlying Error
Vice Versa
Wood Cell
Product details
- ISBN 9780415315227
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2004. On Christian Belief offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief – with particular reference to Christian belief – is not something unlike any other kind of belief, but is cognitive, making claims about what is real, and is open to rational discussion between believers and non-believers. The author begins by providing a critique of several views which try either to describe a faith without cognitive context, or to justify believing on non-cognitive grounds. He then discusses what sense can be made of the phenomenon of religious conversion by realists and non-realists. After a chapter on knowledge in general, he defends the idea that religious knowledge is very like other knowledge, in being based on reliable testimony, sifted by reason and tested by experience. The logical status of the content of religious belief is then discussed, with reference to Christianity.
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.
