| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Toward the Overcoming of the Lockean View of Faith and Reason -- Chapter 1 Reformed Epistemologists and John Henry Newman as Critics of Locke's View of Faith and Reason -- 1.1 Locke's Thought as an Exemplar of a Restricted Understanding of Faith and Reason -- 1.2 Reformed Epistemologists as Critics of Locke's View of Faith and Reason -- 1.3 The Role of Newman's Notion of Inconclusiveness in His Criticism of Locke's View |
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Chapter 2 Thomas Reid: Philosophy, Science, and the Christian Revelation -- 2.1 On the Supposed Incompatibility, in Reid's Thought, between Divine Revelation's Influence on Reason and Autonomous Rational Investigations -- 2.2 Reid's Appeal to the Christian Revelation: Adherence to God and His Message -- 2.3 Reid as Critic of Religiously Unacceptable Scientific Views -- 2.3.1 Against Both Materialism and Idealism -- 2.3.2 In Support of the Traditional Coexistence of Matter and the Immaterial Mind -- Part II The Christian Faith as Part of Both the Problem of Inconclusiveness and Its Solution |
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Chapter 3 Thomas Aquinas: Primacy of Faith and Autonomy of Reason -- 3.1 ''Lockean'' Approaches to Aquinas's View of Faith and Reason -- 3.2 Aquinas's View of Faith and Reason: Evidentness, Human Will, and the Divine Grace -- 3.3 The Inconclusiveness of Debates between Believers and Nonbelievers as a Consequence of the Peculiar Nature of Faith -- Chapter 4 Rethinking the Nature and Purpose of Debates: Mitchell, Practical Rationality, Religious Disagreement, A-Rational Commitments, and ''Quasi-Fideism'' -- 4.1 ME and the Christian Faith |
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4.2 Refuting the Views That Minimize the Gap between ME and the Tenacity of the Christian Faith -- 4.2.1 Basil Mitchell on Neutrality and Commitment -- 4.2.2 Faith, Belief in the Face of Controversy, and Practical Rationality -- 4.2.3 On Disagreement -- 4.2.4 ''Quasi-Fideism'' and Its Potential -- 4.3 Rethinking the Nature and Purpose of Debates for Both Believers and Unbelievers -- Part III The Spiritual Turn: Why and How to Take It -- Chapter 5 The Spiritual Turn: Process and Some Benefits. Divine Hiddenness, No-Fault Unbelief, and Religious Diversity |
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5.1 Doing Good Shapes and Includes the Search for Truth -- 5.1.1 How Exactly the Act of Doing Good Can Be Related to That of Searching for Truth -- 5.1.2 Why Does the Question Emerge? -- 5.1.3 An Incidental Question: Is Prior Knowledge of the Ultimate End Paradoxical? -- 5.1.4 Turning Back to Inconclusiveness: For Believers, This Inconclusiveness Can Be a Sign of Spiritual Progress -- 5.1.5 For Unbelievers and Those Believers Who Are Mere Epistemologists, Inconclusiveness Is Not Expected to Stimulate Any Reflection -- 5.2 Reflecting on No-Fault Unbelief as an Opportunity of Spiritual Enhancement |
| Summary |
"In this book, Roberto Di Ceglie offers an historical, theological, and epistemological investigation exploring how commitments to God and/or the good generate the optimum condition to achieve knowledge. Di Ceglie criticizes the common belief that to attain knowledge, one must always be ready to replace one's convictions with beliefs that appear to be proven. He defends a more comprehensive view, historically exemplified by outstanding Christian thinkers, whereby believers are expected to commit themselves to God and to related beliefs no matter how convincing the evidence contradicting such beliefs appear to be. He also argues that both believers and unbelievers can commit themselves to God and the good, respectively, thereby creating a spiritual turn in epistemology that enables them to generate the best possible condition for conducting rational enquiries and discussion"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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RELIGION / Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022024074 |
| ISBN |
9781009203531 |
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1009203533 |
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9781009203562 |
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1009203568 |
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