dc.contributor.author |
Bishop, John |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-12-16T02:14:32Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2007 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Believing by faith: an essay in the epistemology and ethics of religious belief. 1-250. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
1-250. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
978-0-19-920554-7 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/10117 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Can it be justifiable to commit oneself ‘by faith’ to a religious claim when its truth lacks adequate support from one's total available evidence? After critiquing both Wittgensteinian and Reformed epistemologies of religious belief, this book defends a modest fideism that understands theistic commitment as involving ‘doxastic venture’ in the face of evidential ambiguity: practical commitment to propositions held to be true through ‘passional’ causes (causes other than the recognition of evidence of or for their truth). It is argued that the justifiability of religious faith-ventures is ultima ... |
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dc.description.uri |
http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?fn=search&doc=uoa_voyager1725442&vid=UOA2_A |
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Believing by faith: an essay in the epistemology and ethics of religious belief |
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dc.type |
Book |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205547.001.0001 |
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pubs.begin-page |
1 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the author |
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pubs.end-page |
250 |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Oxford |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RetrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Book |
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pubs.elements-id |
73082 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Humanities |
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pubs.org-id |
Philosophy |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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