The Phenomenon of Religious Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130481157 ISBN 13: 9780130481153

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

This anthology focuses on a variety of perspectives on religious faith with their differing approaches to the roles of reason, knowledge, the will, belief, and language. Engaging and accessible, it provides thought-provoking selections that will appeal to a large variety of readers. It opens by posing fundamental questions surrounding belief and unbelief, and then moves ahead to examine the arguments for God's existence and the four classic models of religious faith. The final sections of the text examine the rationality of religious faith through an analysis of Wittgnenstein and the plausibility of language games; it also details the possibility of a direct encounter with God through mystical or religious experience. This collection will prove especially appealing for laypersons interested in advanced areas of religious inquiry.

About the Author:

Terrence Reynolds is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University, and the Chairman of the Main Campus Faculty. He is the author of THE COHERENCE OF LIFE WITHOUT GOD BEFORE GOD and the editor of THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGIOUS FAITH. He has also published extensively on the meaning, truth, and justification of claims in theology and ethics.