Faith and rationality exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility. Rationality is based on reason or facts. Faith is belief in inspiration,...
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Basic belief (section Notes and references)
Plantinga, Faith and Rationality, (London Notre Dame, 1983) pp. 39-44. Here Plantinga is basing his analysis on the ideas of Aristotle and Aquinas. Anthony...
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October 2011. Plantinga, Alvin; Wolterstorff, Nicholas (1983). Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press...
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BK Shivani (section Awards and recognitions)
(born 31 May 1972), better known as BK Shivani, is a motivational speaker and spiritual mentor representing the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization...
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Holy Spirit (section Baháʼí Faith)
with God the Father and God the Son. In Islam, the Holy Spirit acts as an agent of divine action or communication. In the Baha’i Faith, the Holy Spirit is...
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Alston, William P. (1996). "Belief, Acceptance, and Religious Faith". In Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today, Jordan & Howard-Snyder...
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Agnosticism (redirect from Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism)
and material things), Nabu (rationality), or Ba'al (violent weather); Bell argued that modern peoples were still paying homage—with their lives and their...
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to the rationality or justification of religious beliefs. Some argue that evolutionary explanations of religious belief undermine its rationality. Others...
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Theodicy (redirect from God and evil)
resentment, and chooses trust.: Chapter 3:Psalm 73 Psalm 77 contains real outspokenness to God as well as determination to hold onto faith and trust.: Chapter...
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men so unreasonable..." Pascal addressed the difficulty that reason and rationality pose to genuine belief by proposing that "acting as if [one] believed"...
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Problem of evil (redirect from Free will and the problem of evil)
faith and animate our hope than a deep conviction that all things are possible to God; for whatever may be afterwards proposed as an object of faith,...
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Western esotericism (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
pillar of Western culture" alongside "doctrinal faith and rationality", being deemed heretical by the former and irrational by the latter. Scholars nevertheless...
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Atheism (redirect from The rationality of atheism)
between faith and reason influenced later radical and reformist theologians. The Renaissance did much to expand the scope of free thought and skeptical...
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Nicholas Wolterstorff (category 20th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians)
and philosophy of education. In Faith and Rationality, Wolterstorff, Alvin Plantinga, and William Alston developed and expanded upon a view of religious...
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Alvin Plantinga (category American Calvinist and Reformed Christians)
Zagzebski, Linda (ed), Rational Faith. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1993. Sennett, James, Modality, Probability, and Rationality: A Critical Examination...
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Afterlife (redirect from Death and immortality)
"low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith or other virtues...
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Fideism (category Faith)
Alvin (1983). "Reason and Belief in God" in Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff (eds.), Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God, page 87...
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Existence of God (redirect from Arguments for and against the existence of God)
necessary conditions for rationality. The argument is based on the idea that if certain necessary conditions for rationality are true, then the existence...
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Belief (redirect from Dispositional and occurrent belief)
liberalizing political and social movements, some religious groups attempted to integrate Enlightenment ideals of rationality, equality, and individual liberty...
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other symbols. The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people...
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Maimonides (category Jews and Judaism in the Kingdom of Jerusalem)
correspondence and responsa, including a number of public letters (on resurrection and the afterlife, on conversion to other faiths, and Iggereth Teiman—addressed...
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Immanuel Kant (category Writers about religion and science)
being rational agents. We owe a duty to rationality by virtue of being rational agents; therefore, rational moral principles apply to all rational agents...
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fully compatible with religious faith", a view endorsed by many religious denominations. The concepts of "science" and "religion" are a recent invention:...
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Consensus reality (section In science and philosophy)
version of reality within a community or society, shaped by shared experiences and understandings. This understanding arises from the inherent differences in...
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Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational...
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humanist. According to Doniger, "ideas about all the major issues of faith and lifestyle – vegetarianism, nonviolence, belief in rebirth, even caste...
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Theology (section 20th and 21st centuries)
initially closely tied to the life of faith and of the church: it fed, and was fed by, practices of preaching, prayer and celebration of the Mass. During the...
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List of philosophies (category Philosophical schools and traditions)
Instrumentalism – Instrumental rationality – Intellectualism – Interactionism (philosophy of mind) – Internalism and externalism – Intuitionism – Ionian...
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close ties to the Unitarian Church, who strove towards a rational faith, social reform, and the joining of these two in a renewed religion. Its theology...
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The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Various understandings of...
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