Without Proof or Evidence

Bouwsma, O. K.

ISBN 10: 0803211740 / ISBN 13: 9780803211742

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1984

About this Item

University of Nebraska Press, 1984; no additional printings indicated; xiv, 161pp. No dust jacket, as issued. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; black cloth boards in VG condition, corners sharp, silver foil titling remains bright and bold; text very good. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Without Proof or Evidence
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803211740
• ISBN 13: 9780803211742
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

In Without Proof or Evidence O. K. Bouwsma weaves through the central topics of Western religion: the rationality of religious belief, the nature of Christianity, the promise of eternal life, the definition of faith, and proofs of the existence of God. When he works with the problems of Descartes or Moore or Wittgenstein, surveying the marketplace of language in which we all have commerce, he has the familiarity of an experienced trader. But in his work with the problems of Anselm or Nietzsche or Kierkegaard, in which the Scriptures move between background and foreground, there is another dimension, a concern with whether the Scriptures have been properly understood, what such an understanding might be, and how it affects someone who so understands them.

About the Author

O.K. Bouwsma (1898-1978) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska from 1928-1965. J. L. Craft resides in Austin, Texas. He was a student of O. K. Bouwsma at the University of Texas, and is co-editor of Bouwsma's papers. Ronald E. Hustwit is a professor of philosophy at The College of Wooster. The author of Something About O.K. Bouwsma, Hustwit has edited five works of O.K. Bouwsma's papers.