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Attitudes towards the question of the rational justification of Christian theism vary widely. The particular constructive approach developed here would doubtless benefit if preceded by detailed criticism of various alternatives, but reasons of space prevent this. It is worth broaching the argument, however, via the context to which it belongs.
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J. Macquarrie, Principles of Christian Theology (London: S.C.M. Press, 1966) pp. 45–50 ff.
R. W. Hepburn, ‘The Gospel and the Claims of Logic’, in Religion and Humanism ( London: B.B.C., 1964 ) p. 16.
Cf. N. Smart, Reasons and Faiths ( London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958 ) pp. 44–5.
Cf. S. Lukes, ‘Some Problems about Rationality’, and M. Hollis, ‘The Limits of Irrationality’, in B. Wilson (ed.), Rationality (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970).
R. W. Hepburn, ‘Mysticism, Nature and Assessment of’, in P. Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1967) y, p. 433.
T. R. Miles, ‘On Excluding the Supernatural’, Religious Studies, t (April 1966) 146–7.
K. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (London: Hutchinson, 1959). Cf.
P. B. Medawar, The Art of the Soluble ( Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969 ) pp. 127–73.
I. T. Ramsey, Religion and Science: Conflict and Synthesis ( London: S.P.C.K., 1964 ) pp. 70–1.
J. Baillie, The Interpretation of Religion (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1929) p. 94;
A. Farrer, Finite and Infinite, 2nd ed. ( London: Dacre Press, 1959 ) p. 3.
J. Cook Wilson, ‘Rational Grounds of Belief in God’, reprinted in N. Smart (ed.), Historical Selections in the Philosophy of Religion ( London: S.C.M. Press, 1962 ) p. 440.
Cf. R. W. Hepburn, Christianity and Paradox ( London: Watts, 1958 ) pp. 206–7.
H. D. Lewis, Our Experience of God ( London: Allen & Unwin, 1959 ) p. 102.
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Shepherd, J.J. (1975). Natural Theology and Religious Experience. In: Experience, Inference and God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02436-0_1
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