LEADER 03347nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910781346103321 005 20230721010206.0 010 $a0-8014-6513-3 010 $a0-8014-7851-0 010 $a0-8014-6239-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462399 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035366 035 $a(OCoLC)732957079 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10467996 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542685 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11375833 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542685 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510568 035 $a(PQKB)11631155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138117 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28922 035 $a(DE-B1597)478326 035 $a(OCoLC)979833663 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462399 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138117 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467996 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681823 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035366 100 $a20061027d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe wisdom to doubt$b[electronic resource] $ea justification of religious skepticism /$fJ.L. Schellenberg 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50541-1 311 $a0-8014-4554-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Finitude and the future: seven modes of religious skepticism -- pt. 2. Cradles of conviction: the modes applied and fortified -- pt. 3. God and the gaps: the modes illustrated and vindicated. 330 $aThe Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a species, there is no reasonable choice but to withhold judgment about the existence of an ultimate salvific reality. Schellenberg defends this conclusion against arguments from religious experience and naturalistic arguments that might seem to make either religious belief or religious disbelief preferable to his skeptical stance. In so doing, he canvasses virtually all of the important recent work on the epistemology of religion. Of particular interest is his call for at least skepticism about theism, the most common religious claim among philosophers.The Wisdom to Doubt expands the author's well-known hiddenness argument against theism and situates it within a larger atheistic argument, itself made to serve the purposes of his broader skeptical case. That case need not, on Schellenberg's view, lead to a dead end but rather functions as a gateway to important new insights about intellectual tasks and religious possibilities. 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aBelief and doubt 606 $aSkepticism 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aBelief and doubt. 615 0$aSkepticism. 676 $a211/.7 700 $aSchellenberg$b J. L.$f1959-$01503399 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781346103321 996 $aThe wisdom to doubt$93731770 997 $aUNINA