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Rationality and Religious Theism (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Golding, Joshua L.

 
9781138708716: Rationality and Religious Theism (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138708712 ISBN 13: 9781138708716
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Title first published in 2003. Throughout the ages one of the central topics in philosophy of religion has been the rationality of theistic belief. This book proposes that parties on both sides of this debate might shift their attention in a different direction, by focusing on the question of whether it is rational to be a religious theist. Explaining that having theistic beliefs is primarily a cognitive affair but being a religious theist involves a whole way of life that includes one's beliefs, Golding argues that it can be pragmatically rational to be a religious theist even if the evidence for God’s existence is minimal. The argument is applied to the case of Judaism, articulating what is involved in religious Judaism and arguing that it is rationally defensible to be a religious Jew. The book concludes with a discussion of whether a similar argument might be constructed for other versions of religious theism such as Christianity or Islam, and for non-theistic religions such as Taoism or Buddhism.

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Joshua L. Golding

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138708712
ISBN 13 
9781138708716
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
142