Religious belief and the will

Louis P. Pojman
London ; New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986
xiii, 258 p. ; 22 cm
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  • A.Part One: belief and will in the history of western thought
  • I. Belief and faith in the Bible and the Early Christian Movement
  • II. Plato on knowledge and belief
  • III. Augustine on faith
  • IV. Aquinas on faith
  • V. The rationalists on belief and will: Descartes and Spinoza
  • VI. Pacal's Wager: a case of indirect volitionalism
  • VII. The empiricists' notion of belief: Locke and Hume
  • VIII. Kant and Kirkegaard on the nature and place of faith
  • B.IX. Clifford and James on the ethics of belief
  • X. Modern Catholic volitionalists: Newman, Pieper and Lonergan
  • XI. The contemporary debate on belief and will
  • XII. The contemporary debate on faith and reason: Fideism and rationalism
  • Part two: belief, will and justification of religious belief
  • XIII. Direct descriptive volitionalism
  • XIV. Indirect volitionalism, prescriptive volitionalsim and the ethics of belief
  • XV. Rationality and religious belief
  • XVI. Faith, doubt and hope
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • Routledge & Kegan Paul
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