On positive mysterianism

Religious believers react in one of four ways to apparent contradictions among their beliefs: Redirection, Resistance, Restraint, or Resolution. This paper evaluates positive mysterian Resistance, the view that believers may rationally believe and know apparently contradictory religious doctrines. A...

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Auteur principal: Tuggy, Dale (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2011
Dans: International journal for philosophy of religion
Année: 2011, Volume: 69, Numéro: 3, Pages: 205-226
Sujets non-standardisés:B Theology
B Paradox
B Incarnation
B Trinity
B Defeaters
B Mystery
B Christianity
B Contradiction
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Résumé:Religious believers react in one of four ways to apparent contradictions among their beliefs: Redirection, Resistance, Restraint, or Resolution. This paper evaluates positive mysterian Resistance, the view that believers may rationally believe and know apparently contradictory religious doctrines. After locating this theory by comparing and contrasting it with others, I explore the best developed version of it, that of James Anderson’s Paradox in Christian Theology. I argue that it faces steep epistemic problems, and is at best a temporarily reasonable but ultimately unsustainable stance.
ISSN:1572-8684
Contient:Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11153-010-9237-6