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Author_Joshua L. Golding
belief systems analysis
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Causal Source
cognitive approaches to faith
comparative theology
Conceptually Plausible
Confident Belief
Divine Principles
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God's Essence
God's Moral Character
God's Ontological Status
God’s Essence
God’s Moral Character
God’s Ontological Status
Infinite Bliss
Jewish Conception
Jewish philosophy
Jewish Sources
Live Possibility
Metaphysically Superior
Metaphysically Supreme
Minimal Belief
Morally Supreme
Pascal's Wager
Pascal’s Wager
philosophy of religion
pragmatic justification
Qualitatively Superior
rational defence of religious life
Rational Defensibility
Rationality
Rationally Defensible
Relgious
Religious Jew
Religious Person
Religious Theist
Standard Conception
Supreme Person
Supreme Reality
Theism
Theology
Product details
- ISBN 9781138708716
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Title first published in 2003. Throughout the ages one of the central topics in philosophy of religion has been the rationality of theistic belief. This book proposes that parties on both sides of this debate might shift their attention in a different direction, by focusing on the question of whether it is rational to be a religious theist. Explaining that having theistic beliefs is primarily a cognitive affair but being a religious theist involves a whole way of life that includes one's beliefs, Golding argues that it can be pragmatically rational to be a religious theist even if the evidence for God’s existence is minimal. The argument is applied to the case of Judaism, articulating what is involved in religious Judaism and arguing that it is rationally defensible to be a religious Jew. The book concludes with a discussion of whether a similar argument might be constructed for other versions of religious theism such as Christianity or Islam, and for non-theistic religions such as Taoism or Buddhism.
