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  Faith with Reason (Paperback) By (author) Paul Helm

  

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  Short Description for Faith with ReasonPaul Helm investigates what religious faith is and what makes it reasonable. Helm argues that the reasonableness of faith depends not only on beliefs about the world but also on beliefs about oneself and on what one is willing to trust; he examines the relations between belief and trust, and between faith and virtue.
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  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
  • Published: 29 May 2003
  • Format: Paperback 202 pages
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  • Categories: Linguistics | Philosophy | Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge | Philosophy Of Religion | Spirituality & Religious Experience
  • ISBN 13: 9780199256631 ISBN 10: 0199256632
  • Sales rank: 913,396

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• Paul Helm presents a new study of the nature of religious faith, investigating what makes it reasonable. Religious belief needs to meet and sustain philosophical scrutiny just as any other type of belief does; nothing about religion purchases immunity from this. But at the same time religious epistemology must also respect the contours of religion, the distinctiveness of the subject-matter of religious belief. Helm looks sympathetically at two currently prominent ways of defending the rationality of religious belief: 'Reformed' epistemology and the cumulative case for theism. He argues that the reasonableness of faith depends not only on beliefs about the world but also on beliefs about oneself (for instance about what one wants, about one's hopes and fears) and on what one is willing to trust. Helm goes on to look at the relations between belief and trust, and between faith and virtue, and concludes with an exploration of one particular type of belief about oneself, the belief that one is oneself a believer. This is a book for anyone interested in the basis of religious faith.