God and Evidence: A Cooperative Approach
This article identifies intellectualism as the view that if we simply think hard enough about our evidence, we get an adequate answer to the question of whether God exists. The article argues against intellectualism, and offers a better alternative involving a kind of volitional evidentialism. If Go...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2013]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 47-61 |
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| Summary: | This article identifies intellectualism as the view that if we simply think hard enough about our evidence, we get an adequate answer to the question of whether God exists. The article argues against intellectualism, and offers a better alternative involving a kind of volitional evidentialism. If God is redemptive in virtue of seeking divine -human reconciliation, we should expect the evidence for God to be likewise redemptive. In that case, according to the article, the evidence for God would aim to draw the human will toward cooperation with Gods will. Accordingly, the available evidence for God would be volitionally sensitive in that ones coming to possess it would depend on ones volitional stance toward its source. The article identifies some implications for divine hiddenness, traditional natural theology, and the view that the evidence for Gods existence is akin to evidence for a scientific hypothesis. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v5i2.233 |