It is a common theme of atheist critics that Christian belief is irrational. In making this claim, however, they routinely assume that what Christians mean by belief is essentially the …
Truth, Knowledge and Religious Belief
Religious beliefs are often criticized as lacking the rational justification we expect of factual knowledge claims. In this article I suggest that while religious believers do often claim ‘knowledge’ of …
The Meanings of Belief
Atheist critiques of religious belief tend to assume that this belief is of broadly the same kind as that treated by philosophers: a disposition to take as true the content …