Skepticism, relativism, and religious knowledge: a Kierkegaardian perspective informed by Wittgenstein's philosophy

Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge shows where responses to skepticism and relativism by Karl Barth and Reformed epistemology have led to impasses, and reconstructs their insights in a more robust response that does not depend on making excessive claims about our epistemic capacities. T...

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Main Author: Harvey, Michael G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eugene, OR Pickwick 2013
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Summary:Skepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge shows where responses to skepticism and relativism by Karl Barth and Reformed epistemology have led to impasses, and reconstructs their insights in a more robust response that does not depend on making excessive claims about our epistemic capacities. This response is based on a more nuanced conception of the relationship between trust, doubt, faith, and reason, and a Kierkegaardian perspective on religious knowledge that stresses the role of the will and the intellectual and theological virtues
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and indexes
Part One. The exclusive disjunction of objectivism or relativism -- Religious language, reference, and autonomy -- Revelation, imagination, and arbitrariness -- Part Two. A hermeneutical model of rationality -- Rationality, relativism, and skepticism -- Tradition, worldviews, and conflict -- Science, rationality, and theology -- Part Three. A Kierkegaardian perspective on religious knowledge -- Faith, knowledge, and belief -- Faith, knowledge, and truth -- Faith, knowledge, and suffering
Physical Description:XX, 195 S.
ISBN:9781620322376

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