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Professor Bartley's Theory of Rationality and Religious Belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. D. Hudson
Affiliation:
Reader in Philosophy, University of Exeter

Extract

In The Retreat to Commitment (London, 1964), Professor W. W. Bartley III argues for a certain theory of rationality and contends that by this criterion it is not possible for a christian theist to be rational. His theory of rationality has already aroused considerable criticism, but his application of it to religious belief in particular, has not hitherto been widely considered.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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page 339 note 1 Op. cit. p. 146.

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