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The nature of belief

Frederick Robert Tennent

London,: The Centenary press (1943)

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The Legacy That Frederick Robert Tennant Left to Theism.Mehmet Demi̇rtaş - 2018 - Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy 8 (1):79-92.details Theism, which means the existence of a transcendent being beyond the material world and accepting its sanctity, often defend the idea that God has an eternal, conscious, universe-knowing and strong personality. In this paper, I outline and discuss how theism is treated and assessed by English Philosopher Frederick Robert Tennant (1866-1957) and which differences and superiority it can provide against other philosophical movements. In addition, it will be emphasized how Tennant attempts to harmonize positive sciences with philosophy and theology. Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Faith and disbelief.Robert K. Whitaker - 2019 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 85 (2):149-172.details Is faith that p compatible with disbelief that p? I argue that it is. After surveying some recent literature on the compatibility of propositional and non-propositional forms of faith with the lack of belief, I take the next step and offer several arguments for the thesis that both these forms of faith are also compatible, in certain cases, with outright disbelief. This is contrary to the views of some significant recent commentators on propositional faith, including Robert Audi and Daniel Howard-Snyder. (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations
Faith Assimilated to Perception: the Embodied Perspective.Elena Kalmykova - 2020 - Sophia 60 (4):1-19.details In this paper, I consider how the embodied approach can be applied to religious faith, and possibly other kinds of faith. I start with the reformed epistemologists’ idea that religious faith is similar to sense perception, and I argue that we can elaborate this idea by taking into account our capability perceptually to grasp what is not accessible by senses—the ‘presence in absence’ or, as I call it, perceptual faith. As perception necessarily involves not only a mental but also an (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Faith.John Bishop - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details Download Export citation Bookmark 17 citations

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