Andrew Collier, On Christian Belief: A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context
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On Christian Belief offers a defence 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 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.
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