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Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion
William J. Wainwright
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hardcover. The book presents a novel defense of the beneficial epistemic effect that extra logical features can have on the assessment of religious arguments. Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRAM1; HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion argues that immersion in religious reading traditions and their associated spiritual practices significantly shapes our emotions, desires, intuitions, and volitional commitments; these in turn affect our construction and assessments of arguments for religious conclusions. But far from distorting the reasoning process, these emotions and volitional and cognitive dispositions can be essential for sound reasoning on religious and other value-laden subject matters. And so western philosophy must rethink its traditional antagonism toward rhetoric. The book concludes with discussions of the implications of the earlier chapters for the relation between reason and revelation, and for the role that ... Read more
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion argues that immersion in religious reading traditions and their associated spiritual practices significantly shapes our emotions, desires, intuitions, and volitional commitments; these in turn affect our construction and assessments of arguments for religious conclusions. But far from distorting the reasoning process, these emotions and volitional and cognitive dispositions can be essential for sound reasoning on religious and other value-laden subject matters. And so western philosophy must rethink its traditional antagonism toward rhetoric. The book concludes with discussions of the implications of the earlier chapters for the relation between reason and revelation, and for the role that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107062405
SKU
V9781107062405
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About William J. Wainwright
William J. Wainwright is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has served as Editor of Faith and Philosophy and is past President of both the Society for Philosophy of Religion and the Society of Christian Philosophers. Major publications include Mysticism (1981), Philosophy of Religion (1998, 2nd edition 1999), Reason and the Heart (1995), Religion ... Read more
Reviews for Reason, Revelation, and Devotion: Inference and Argument in Religion
'William J. Wainwright has always been a person who philosophizes with his whole self. Little wonder, then if … he tries to show us how reasoning about what matters most is and ought to be existentially embedded. No surprise, when he makes his cross-cultural case that rational conviction depends not only on logical acumen but on disciplined passions and ... Read more