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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © The author 2008. Journal compilation © Trustees for Roman Catholic Purposes Registered 2008
- ISSN
- 0018-1196
- eISSN
- 1468-2265
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00430.x
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
In this paper, I shall examine William Alston's influential view that the cognitive element in religious faith should be identified with ‘acceptance’ rather than ‘belief’. Although I am sympathetic to Alston's reluctance to regard belief as essential to faith, I shall argue that one can redescribe the cases that Alston invokes in support of his claim in terms of the standard notion of degrees‐of‐belief without loss. It will be further argued that, given Alston's constraints, his notion of acceptance, if not identical to belief, is at least a species of belief.
Journal
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2009