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Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael
C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. This volume
considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover
truths about God, whereas the companion volume focuses on
theological questions about humanity and the human condition. The
chapters in the first part of Volume I explore issues pertaining to
discourse about God and the authority of scripture. Part two
focuses on divine attributes, while part three discusses doctrine
of the trinity and related issues.
Arguments about the "evidences of Christianity" have consumed the
talents of believers and agnostics. These arguments have tried to
give-or to deny-Christian belief a "foundation." Belief is
rational, the argument goes, only if it is logically derived from
axiomatic truths or is otherwise supported by "enough evidence."
Arguments for belief generally fail to sway the unconvinced. But is
this because the evidence is flimsy and the arguments weak-or
because they attempt to give the right answer to the wrong
question? What, after all, would satisfy Russell's all for
evidence? Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications
of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology."
This is the view of knowledge-enunciated by Calvin, further
developed by Barth-that sees belief in God as its own foundation;
in the authors' terms, is it properly "basic" in itself.
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