The Rationality of Theism

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-10

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2. The Rationality of Christian Theism

   • Wolfhart Pannenberg

   Pages 11-19

3. Many Kinds of Rational Theistic Belief

   • Richard Swinburne

   Pages 21-38

4. The Rationality of Theistic Belief and the Concept of Truth

   • Lorenz B. Puntel

   Pages 39-60

5. Belief and the Logic of Religious Commitment

   • Philip Clayton, Steven Knapp

   Pages 61-83

6. A New Argument for the Existence of God: One that Works, Well, Sort of

   • Richard M. Gale

   Pages 85-103

7. Towards a Rehabilitation of Aquinas’s “Third Way”

   • Gerard J. Hughes

   Pages 105-123

8. Warranted Christian Belief: The Aquinas/Calvin Model

   • Alvin Plantinga

   Pages 125-143

9. Christian Belief and Platonic Rationality

   • Peter van Inwagen

   Pages 145-159

10. “Perspicuous Representation” and the Analogy of Experience

    • Friedo Ricken

    Pages 161-175

11. Phronesis and Christian Belief

    • Linda Zagzebski

    Pages 177-194

12. The Negative and Positive Task of Reason in Relation to Religious Attitudes

    • Reiner Wimmer

    Pages 195-213

13. Proper Basicality and the Evidential Significance of Internalist Defeat: A Proposal for Revising Classical Evidentialism

    • Michael Czapkay Sudduth

    Pages 215-236

14. The Distinctiveness of the Epistemology of Religious Belief

    • William P. Alston

    Pages 237-254

15. Rationality and Reason

    • Franz von Kutschera

    Pages 255-269

16. Back Matter

    Pages 271-280

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In May 1998, a distinguished group of philosophers met in Munich to discuss the rationality of theism. This volume is a collection of the papers read at that conference. While in recent years the rationality of theistic belief has been widely discussed, the Munich conference was an event of some moment in the history of philosophical dialogue: for the first time German- and English-speaking philosophers of religion, representatives of both the Continental and the Anglo-Saxon traditions, joined together to grapple with a common philosophical theme. This multiplicity of perspectives brought a unique richness to the analysis of rationality that no one tradition by itself could provide. Readers will find that richness displayed in the pages of this book. Professional philosophers will find here a great deal to stimulate and challenge them; but graduate students, capable undergraduates, and all others with a serious interest in the philosophy of religion will be well rewarded for their efforts to come to grips with these thought-provoking papers.

• Plato
• Religion
• epistemology
• logic
• philosophy

• Munich School of Philosophy, Munich, Germany

  Godehard Brüntrup

• Boston College, Boston, USA

  Ronald K. Tacelli

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