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How To Argue For God's Existence: Reflections On Hartshorne's Global Argument, Donald W. Viney
How To Argue For God's Existence: Reflections On Hartshorne's Global Argument, Donald W. Viney
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Charles Hartshorne challenges the supposed truism that one cannot prove, or at least cannot make a strong rational argument for, the existence of God. Hartshorne makes at least four advances on previous efforts. First, he employs a "global" or multiple argument strategy, also known as a cumulative case, and thus he does not require any single argument to do all the work for theism. Second, he insists that the issue of God's existence is conceptual, not empirical, and thereby he avoids the trap of thinking that God must be a hypothesis in science. Third, he uses position matrices to emphasize …
On Theological Ignorance, Donald W. Viney
On Theological Ignorance, Donald W. Viney
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Defenders of Creation-Science treat the Bible as, among other things, an infallible oracle on matters of science. Two problems with this view are that it leads to mistaken scientific ideas but also that it ignores what mainstream theologians have said about the Bible, namely, that it is not a science book. Creation-Science is a product of theological ignorance.
Faith And The Many-Tiered Structure Of Belief, Donald W. Viney
Faith And The Many-Tiered Structure Of Belief, Donald W. Viney
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Elaborating on the work of Alvin Plantinga and the concept of noetic structures, I argue that the concept of a rational belief is flexible enough to tolerate a certain degree of uncertainty and inability to answer criticism of the belief. This flexibility, moreover, is an essential component in the concept of a rational faith in God.