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Two Views of Religious Certitude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Stephen Maitzen
Stephen Maitzen
Affiliation:
Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.y. 14853
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At least since Cardinal Newman's Grammar of Assent (1870), Anglo-American philosophers have been concerned with the role of certitude, or subjective epistemic certainty, in theistic belief. Newman is himself famous for holding that certitude is an essential feature of any sort of genuine belief, including in particular religious belief. As one recent commentator, Michael Banner, notes, for Newman

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 65 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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