Perceiving God : the epistemology of religious experience
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Cornell University Press, 2014
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780801471247 (electronic bk.) MWT12427247, 0801471249 (electronic bk.) 12427247
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God-his term for direct experiential awareness of God-makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience
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