| Religious Experience, Justification, and History Contributor(s): Bagger, Matthew C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521093252 ISBN-13: 9780521093255 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Religious Experience, Justification and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Christian Theology - Soteriology - Religion | Christianity - General |
| Dewey: 291.42 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recently, many philosophers of religion have sought to defend the rationality of religious belief by shifting the burden of proof onto the critic of religious belief. Some have appealed to extraordinary religious experience in making their case. Religious Experience, Justification, and History restores neglected explanatory and historical considerations to the debate. Through a study of William James, it contests the accounts of religious experience offered in recent works. Through reflection on the history of philosophy, it also unravels the philosophical use of the term justification. Matthew Bagger argues that the commitment to supernatural explanations implicit in the religious experiences employed to justify religious belief contradicts the modern ideal of human flourishing. |