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Faith and rationality exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility. Rationality is based on reason or facts. Faith is belief in inspiration, revelation, or authority. The word faith sometimes refers to a belief that is held in spite of or against reason or empirical evidence, or it can refer to belief based upon a degree of evidential ...
William Payne Alston (November 29, 1921 – September 13, 2009) was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century, [1] and is also known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. [2]
The essence of the Reformed challenge is to accuse the foundationalist of claiming to have a criterion of rationality which, in fact, he does not possess. By means of this alleged criterion the foundationalist claims to discern which epistemic practices are rational and which are not. Non-rational practices, he claims, include those of religion ...
According to Reformed epistemology, belief in God can be rational and justified even without arguments or evidence for the existence of God. More specifically, Plantinga argues that belief in God is properly basic, and due to a religious externalist epistemology, he claims belief in God could be justified independently of evidence.
Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932, [4] to Dutch emigrants in a small farming community in southwest Minnesota. [5] [6] After earning his BA in philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his MA and PhD in philosophy, completing his studies in 1956.
Audi earned his BA from Colgate University and his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.He taught initially at the University of Texas at Austin, and then for many years as the Charles J. Mach University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln before moving to University of Notre Dame as Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Management, and the David E. Gallo Chair ...
Rational fideism is the philosophical view that considers faith to be precursor for any reliable knowledge.Every paradigmatic system, whether one considers rationalism or empiricism, is based on axioms that are neither self-founding nor self-evident (see the Münchhausen trilemma), so it appeals to assumptions accepted as belief (in reason or experience respectively).
Book of the First Monks; The Interior Castle; Abbey of the Holy Ghost; A Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation; From Willow Creek to Sacred Heart; The Glories of Mary; The Imitation of Christ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent; Philokalia; Revelations of Divine Love; The Story of a Soul; Theologia Germanica; Devotio Moderna; Fatima in Lucia's Own Words