Reason, Revelation, and Devotion Inference and Argument in Religion

includes index and biblioraphy

For Examples of Religious Reasoning ...5 I. Samuel Clarke`s Cosmological arguments for the existence of God.5 Is the concept of omnipotence Coherent?.11 Is ultimate reality personal?...16 What is the relation between Grace and free will?..22 Conclusion.30 The purpose of Argument and the person-relativity of proofs..32 1. The purpose of religious arguments..32 2.The person-relativity of religious arguments...40 Religius reading and theological arguments.48 Passional reasoning...........59 1. Four accounts of Passional reasoning ......61 Jonathan Edwards.61 John Henry Newman..65 William James...........69 Wang Yangming......77 2.Objections.................77 Subjectivism......77 Circularity..........78 The role of Rhetoric in Religious Argumentation.84 1. Philosophy`s Quarrel with rhetoric.84 2.Aristotle and Rhetoric......87 3.Philosophy`s De Facto use of Rhetoric....89 4.The necessity of Philosophy`s Use of Rhetoric.91 5. An example : The confessions of Augustine.95 6. Three Objections.....97 objection 1......97 Objection 2......97 Objection 3........99 Reason, Revelation, and religious Argumentation....100 1. Vedantin and Christian Views of Revelation.104 2. Can reasons Be given for subscribing to an alleged revelation?.......109 3. Deism, bayle`s skeptical fideism, and Revelation.113 4. Deism`s Religious indequacy.117 5. Bare theism and idolatry...119 6. Deistic and christian conceptions of sound reason.120 7. Traditional christian attitudes towards philosophy and revelation.123 Theology and mystery....129 1. Senses of mystery....134 2. Christian uses of Mystery.135 3.Reasons for the divine mystery thesis......137 4.The nature and extent of God`s Unkowability.140 5. Is the mystery removable?..143