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This collection of essays presents a systematic analysis of some of the foremost issues in the philosophy of religion. The focus is on the epistemology of religion, the most significant area of recent interest in the field. After developing a religious epistemology in the 1st half of the book, that epistemology is not only further expanded, but explicitly applied to two salient issues in the contemporary discussion - the debate over theological realism versus non-realism, and the problem of religious pluralism. Other works by Joseph Runzo include "Reason, Relativism and God", "Is God Real?", "Ethics, Religion and the Good Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World" and "Religious Experience and Religious Belief: Essays in the Epistemology of Religion".
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This collection of essays presents a systematic analysis of some of the foremost issues in the philosophy of religion. The focus is on the epistemology of religion, the most significant area of recent interest in the field. After developing a religious epistemology in the first half of the book, that epistemology is both further expanded, and explicitly applied to salient issues in the contemporary discussion. The central question throughout the essays is how our world-views affect our perception, especially our perception of God. The first essays set out a general epistemology of perception. The next two sets of essays build upon this in assessing the cognitive value of religious experience, and analyzing the proper epistemic foundations for belief in God. Then, in view of the role of faith developed in those essays, the final essays address the dual challenges to traditional theism of theological non-realism and of religious pluralism.
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Joseph Runzo is Professor of Philosophy and of Religion at Chapman University, California.
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