Belief-in and Belief in God

Of all the examples of ‘belief-in’, belief in God is both the most mysterious and the most challenging. Indeed whether and how an apologist can make a case for the intellectual respectability of theistic belief, depends upon the nature of this ‘belief-in’. I shall attempt to elucidate this matter by...

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Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-12532017-04-13T08:43:34Z Belief-in and Belief in God WILLIAMS, John N. Of all the examples of ‘belief-in’, belief in God is both the most mysterious and the most challenging. Indeed whether and how an apologist can make a case for the intellectual respectability of theistic belief, depends upon the nature of this ‘belief-in’. I shall attempt to elucidate this matter by an analysis of the relation of ‘belief-in’ to ‘belief-that’ and by treating belief in God as a special case of ‘belief-in’. 1992-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/254 info:doi/10.1017/s0034412500021740 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1253/viewcontent/BeliefInBelief_in_God_1992.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Philosophy Religion
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WILLIAMS, John N.
Belief-in and Belief in God
description Of all the examples of ‘belief-in’, belief in God is both the most mysterious and the most challenging. Indeed whether and how an apologist can make a case for the intellectual respectability of theistic belief, depends upon the nature of this ‘belief-in’. I shall attempt to elucidate this matter by an analysis of the relation of ‘belief-in’ to ‘belief-that’ and by treating belief in God as a special case of ‘belief-in’.
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title Belief-in and Belief in God
title_short Belief-in and Belief in God
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 1992
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/254
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