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Christian moral theology --- General ethics --- Religious studies --- Religion and ethics. --- Religion and ethics --- Ethics and religion --- Ethics

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The second half of the 20th-century was an especially fruitful period, seeing new developments in logic and epistemology to mount both sophisticated defences of, and attacks on, religious claims. Each chapter of this handbook is representative of a distinct viewpoint related to these issues.

Religion --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Religion - Philosophy. --- Religion - Philosophy --- Philosophie de la religion

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Between the opposing claims of reason and religious subjectivity may be a middle ground, William J. Wainwright argues. His book is a philosophical reflection on the role of emotion in guiding reason. There is evidence, he contends, that reason functions properly only when informed by a rightly disposed heart.The idea of passional reason, so rarely discussed today, once dominated religious reflection, and Wainwright pursues it through the writings of three of its past proponents: Jonathan Edwards, John Henry Newman, and William James. He focuses on Edwards, whose work typifies the Christian perspective on religious reasoning and the heart. Then, in his discussion of Newman and James, Wainwright shows how the emotions participate in non-religious reasoning. Finally he takes up the challenges most often posed to notions of passional reason: that such views justify irrationality and wishful thinking, that they can't be defended without circularity, and that they lead to relativism. His response to these charges culminates in an eloquent and persuasive defense of the claim that reason functions best when influenced by the appropriate emotions, feelings, and intuitions.

Subjectivity --- Faith and reason --- Faith and reason. --- Faith and logic --- Logic and faith --- Reason --- Reason and faith --- Reason and religion --- Religion and reason --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects. --- James, William, --- Newman, John Henry, --- Edwards, Jonathan, --- Subjectivism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Relativity --- Christianity --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Newman, John Henry --- Dzhems, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Jaymz, Vīlyām, --- جىمز، وىلىام --- أدوردس، يوناثان --- Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Religious studies

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Reason, Revelation, and Devotion argues that immersion in religious reading traditions and their associated spiritual practices significantly shapes our emotions, desires, intuitions, and volitional commitments; these in turn affect our construction and assessments of arguments for religious conclusions. But far from distorting the reasoning process, these emotions and volitional and cognitive dispositions can be essential for sound reasoning on religious and other value-laden subject matters. And so western philosophy must rethink its traditional antagonism toward rhetoric. The book concludes with discussions of the implications of the earlier chapters for the relation between reason and revelation, and for the role that the concept of mystery should play in philosophy in general, and in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology in particular.

Philosophy and religion. --- Inference. --- Reasoning. --- Argumentation --- Ratiocination --- Reason --- Thought and thinking --- Judgment (Logic) --- Logic --- Ampliative induction --- Induction, Ampliative --- Inference (Logic) --- Reasoning --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion

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