Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism

Abstract

Part one: the need to justify religious beliefs. Chapter one, The wittgensteinian approach (wittgenstein and phillips on "dissolving" the justification question); chapter two, Aquinas on religious language (on david burrell's interpretation of aquinas and its relevance to the justification issue); chapter three, Disagreement and the need for justification (on plantinga and the basicality of religious beliefs). Part two: justifying religious belief. Chapter four, Paradigms and religious beliefs (mitchell, Barbour, And the kuhnian model of rationality); chapter five, The presence of God and the justification of religious belief (an argument for the existence of God from religious experience).