Does absence make atheistic belief grow stronger?
Discussion of the role which religious experience can play in warranting theistic belief has received a great deal of attention within contemporary philosophy of religion. By contrast, the relationship between experience and atheistic belief has received relatively little focus. Our aim in this pape...
| Published in: | International journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2016
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International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Experience (Religion)
B Religious Experience B Atheism B Hidden God B BELIEF & doubt B EPISTEMIC logic B Religion Philosophy B Alvin Plantinga B Faith B C. Stephen Evans |
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| Summary: | Discussion of the role which religious experience can play in warranting theistic belief has received a great deal of attention within contemporary philosophy of religion. By contrast, the relationship between experience and atheistic belief has received relatively little focus. Our aim in this paper is to begin to remedy that neglect. In particular, we focus on the hitherto under-discussed question of whether experiences of God's absence can provide positive epistemic status for a belief in God's nonexistence. We argue that there is good reason to accept an epistemic parity between experiences of God's presence and experiences of God's absence |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-015-9532-3 |