How a Modest Fideism may Constrain Theistic Commitments: Exploring an Alternative to Classical Theism

Philosophia

Volumn 35, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 387-402

  Bishop, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Concepts of God; Ethics of belief; Faith; Faith venture; Fideism; Greatness qua being; Justifiability of religious beliefs; Problem of evil; Reformed epistemology; Social doctrine of the Trinity; Theism

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448966584     PISSN: 00483893     EISSN: 15749274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11406-007-9071-y     Document Type: Article

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