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Three Ways to Improve Religious Epistemology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2017

J. L. Schellenberg
J. L. Schellenberg*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Mount Saint Vincent University
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john.schellenberg@msvu.ca
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Abstract

Religious epistemology is widely regarded as being in a flourishing condition. It is true that some very sharp analytical work on religion has been produced by philosophers in the past few decades. But this work, for various cultural and historical reasons, has been kept within excessively narrow bounds, and the result is that the appearance of flourishing is to a considerable extent illusory. Here I discuss three important ways in which improvements to this situation might be made.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 81: Religious Epistemology , October 2017 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2017 

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