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98The wisdom to doubt: a justification of religious skepticismCornell University Press. 2007.The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief.
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21ContentsIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. 2009.
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250The atheist’s free will offenceInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 56 (1): 1-15. 2004.This paper criticizes the assumption, omnipresent in contemporary philosophy of religion, that a perfectly good and loving God would wish to confer on finite persons free will. An alternative mode of Divine-human relationship is introduced and shown to be as conducive to the realization of value as one involving free will. Certain implications of this result are then revealed, to wit, that the theist's free will defence against the problem of evil is unsuccessful, and what is more, that free wil…Read more
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37Review of Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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7Part. I. Purifying Faith Why the Best Religion Is the Most SkepticalIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 11-66. 2009.
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2658Divine HiddennessIn Paul Draper, Charles Talliaferro & Phillip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, 2nd ed., Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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IntroductionIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 1-10. 2009.
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20Challenges to Moral and Religious Belief: Disagreement and Evolution (review)International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (1). 2017.
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3Divine Hiddenness and Human ReasonInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 40 (2): 121-124. 1996.
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59The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy's New Challenge to Belief in GodOxford University Press UK. 2015.In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddenness argument, this is actually a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddenness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence in philosophy over the past two decades. J. L. Schellenberg first developed the argument in 1993, and this book offers a short and vigorous statement of its central claims and ideas. Logically sharp but so clea…Read more
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61Stalemate and Strategy: Rethinking the Evidential Argument from EvilAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 37 (4). 2000.
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78A Reply to WykstraPhilo 14 (1): 101-107. 2011.Wykstra’s paper defends two objections to my reasoning in The Wisdom to Doubt. One says that we in fact do take evidence to be representative of all the relevant evidence that exists when forming the judgment that it makes some proposition probable, the other that our judgments as to the representativeness of evidence are often justified, and can be justified even in matters of religion. Both objections are instructive but ultimately unsuccessful, as I show here.
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11Part V. Keeping Faith Skeptical Religion as Reason’s DemandIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 235-250. 2009.
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1394Religious Diversity and Religious SkepticismIn Kevin Schilbrack (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.In this paper I argue that given the present state of relevant inquiry, the facts of religious diversity justify religious skepticism. Because of the diversity of religious claims, the denial of any detailed religious proposition is equivalent to a large disjunction of alternative claims. The same is true of the denial of metaphysical naturalism. And having typically acquired no detailed understanding of the whole panoply of religious views, religious believers and metaphysical naturalists are r…Read more
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108On reasonable nonbelief and perfect love: Replies to Henry and LeheFaith and Philosophy 22 (3): 330-342. 2005.Some Christian philosophers wonder whether a God really would oppose reasonable nonbelief. Others think the answer to the problem of reasonable nonbelief is that there isn’t any. Between them, Douglas V. Henry and Robert T. Lehe cover all of this ground in their recent responses to my work on Divine hiddenness. Here I give my answers to their arguments
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57God, the Best, and Evil, by Bruce LangtryMind 118 (472): 1155-1160. 2009.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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72The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religionCornell University Press. 2009.Ultimism and the aims of human immaturity -- Faith without details, or how to practice skeptical religion -- Simple faith and the complexities of tradition -- The structure of faith justification -- How skeptical faith is true to reason -- Anselm's idea -- Leibniz's ambition -- Paley's wonder -- Pascal's wager -- Kant's postulate -- James's will -- Faith is positively justified : the many modes of religious vision.
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13Part II. Testing Faith Is the Best Religion Good Enough ?In The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 67-96. 2009.
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3077God for All Time: From Theism to UltimismIn Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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IndexIn The will to imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, Cornell University Press. pp. 263-268. 2009.
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48Evolutionary religionOxford University Press. 2013.J.L. Schellenberg offers a path to a new kind of religious outlook. Reflection on our early stage in the evolutionary process leads to skepticism about religion, but also offers a new answer to the problem of faith and reason, and the possibility of a new, evolutionary form of religion.
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2240The Hiddenness Problem and the Problem of EvilFaith and Philosophy 27 (1): 45-60. 2010.The problem of Divine hiddenness, or the hiddenness problem, is more and more commonly being treated as independent of the problem of evil, and as rivalling the latter in significance. Are we in error if we acquiesce in these tendencies? Only a careful investigation into relations between the hiddenness problem and the problem of evil can help us see. Such an investigation is undertaken here. What we will find is that when certain knots threatening to hamper intellectual movement are unravelled,…Read more
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