• 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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  • 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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    "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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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