Flannery O'Connor and religious epistemology

What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extra...

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Auteur principal: Baehr, Jason S. 1972- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
Dans: Religious studies
Année: 2020, Volume: 56, Numéro: 3, Pages: 349-369
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964 / Religion / Logique épistémique
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
NCA Éthique
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Résumé:What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain.
ISSN:1469-901X
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000562