The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

by God? And if it is inspired, must it be seen as infallible or perhaps inerrant? Are such beliefs about the Bible compatible wi ...

around the earth, and such phenomenal language is neither false nor intended to be scientifically informative. Richard Swinburne ...

that the Scriptures are infallible (though others use the terms “inerrancy” and “infallibility” synonymously). There are various ...

Many religious disputes about the nature and value of faith may rest on semantic unclarity. Some writers may mean by “faith” som ...

grasp truths that they would have no access to apart from a revelation. Nevertheless, faith for Locke must always be governed by ...

idea that there might be beings in other parts of the universe with cognitive powers that vastly exceed our own. I term forms of ...

Plantinga proposes, for example, that humans have been given a sensus divinitatis, a God-given disposition to believe in God in ...

object made intelligible to it,” a state that would require us to be “uplifted out of this mortal life” (1945, 97). There are ot ...

that a human could not reasonably foresee would also constitute such evidence. Finally, if an end p.336 extraterrestrial were to ...

end p.337 practical knowledge we need is given in and through a relationship to God incarnate in the person of Jesus the Christ. ...

accepted by a given society as reasonable, then we can understand the possibility that a critique of concrete reason may be done ...

reorientation of the individual so that pride and selfishness can be replaced by humility and love, thereby repairing the cognit ...

revelation. Similar claims could obviously be made on behalf of other religions by their proponents. The philosopher can perhaps ...

Evans, C. Stephen. 1998. Faith Beyond Reason: A Kierkegaardian Account. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Hordern, William. ...

Does Morality Depend upon Religion? Virtually all religions include a code of moral conduct. In fact, the only feature of religi ...

depends on God as they understand him. (Perhaps it is not surprising that religious exclusivists always think that the one true ...

whereas the concept of moral wrong serves the same function in secularized moral theory as sin does in the moral systems of Juda ...

The question Why should I be moral? is not obviously a trivial question, whereas Why should I care about offending God? is fooli ...

philosophy, and so on. But somebody needs to address the issue of whether morality can be independent of religion and, if so, wh ...

With the idea of the highest good in place, Kant offers the following simple argument for theism. Morality obligates each of us ...