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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811188903321

Autore

Ledwig Marion

Titolo

God's rational warriors : the rationality of faith considered / / Marion Ledwig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2008

ISBN

3-11-032132-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Disciplina

230.01

Soggetti

Faith and reason

Rationalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rationality of Faith -- Chapter Two: The Undecidability of Pascal's Wager -- Chapter Three: Is it Rational to Believe in Miracles? -- Chapter Four: Inconsistencies in the Christian Tradition I: An Omnibenevolent God who Allows Evil -- Chapter Five: Inconsistencies in the Christian Tradition II: The Paradoxes of Omnipotence and Omniscience -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book stands in the tradition of philosophers who advance the rationality of faith. Yet this book goes beyond their accounts, for it not only defends the view that faith can be termed rational, but it also considers the different senses in which faith can be termed rational. While this book advances the idea that faith as a general category can be termed rational, it does not investigate in a detailed way whether there are arguments for the rationality of particular faiths which would go beyond the arguments for the rationality of faith as a general category. Besides discussing whether betting on God in Pascal's wager and believing in miracles are forms of the rationality of faith, I will provide unique solutions to the problem of evil and the paradoxes of omnipotence and omniscience.