Religious Experience and Religious Lives - An Epistemology

This book argues that religious experiences can contribute to the justification of religious belief in God. Religious experiences can contribute to justificatory cases in several distinct ways, and this is best explained by the diversity and development of religious believers in a religious tradition.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Rejecting Anti-Experientialism
Chapter Two: Resisting Strong Experientialism
Chapter Three: Defending Moderate Experientialism
Chapter Four: Religious Experience and Religious Lives
Chapter Five: Religious Experience and Cognitive Science
Conclusion: Final Considerations

About the author

By Walter Scott Stepanenko

Summary

This book argues that religious experiences can contribute to the justification of religious belief in God. Religious experiences can contribute to justificatory cases in several distinct ways, and this is best explained by the diversity and development of religious believers in a religious tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Scott Stepanenko
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781666922011
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-201-1
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, Theology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge