Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief

Believing by Faith: An Essay in the Epistemology and Ethics of Religious Belief

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-262

  Bishop, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Doxastic voluntarism; Epistemology; Ethics; Evidential ambiguity; Evidentialism; Fideism; Reformed epistemology; Theism; William James

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448949081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205547.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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