Perceiving God
This paper expounds and defends the work of William P. Alston in his book Perceiving God and several papers written on this topic. I shall take seriously the view that there is a nonsensory perceptual awareness of God that provides grounds for religious belief. A person can become justified in holdi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2007
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Theology today
Year: 2007, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 459-468 |
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Summary: | This paper expounds and defends the work of William P. Alston in his book Perceiving God and several papers written on this topic. I shall take seriously the view that there is a nonsensory perceptual awareness of God that provides grounds for religious belief. A person can become justified in holding certain kinds of beliefs about God by virtue of perceiving God as being so-and-so and doing such-and-such. God can comfort, strengthen, guide, communicate a message, or sustain the subject in being. By virtue of my being aware of God as comforting me, I can justifiably believe that God is comforting me. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057360706300405 |