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Religious Belief

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Authors:
  1. James Kellenberger

    1. California State University, Department of Philosophy, Northridge, USA

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  • Explores religious belief in its several forms, including propositional or doctrinal belief, belief - or belief-faith - in God, and implicit belief
  • Examines the issue of the relationship between religious belief and religious experience
  • Presents the case that in the Christian tradition there are God-relationships not defined by belief

Part of the book series: Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion (PFPR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 1-7

  3. Features and Forms of Belief

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 9-15

  4. Confessional Belief

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 17-27

  5. Belief in God

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 29-39

  6. Implicit Belief

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 41-47

  7. Belief and Subjectivity

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 49-56

  8. Belief in Relics

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 57-62

  9. Religious Experience and Belief

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 63-73

  10. Divisions of Belief

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 75-82

  11. Belief/Faith in God and Other God-Relationships

    • James Kellenberger
    Pages 83-94

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 95-100
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About this book

This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take. Two primary forms are discussed: propositional or doctrinal belief, and belief in God. Religious belief in God, whose affective content is trust in God, it is seen, opens for believers a relationship to God defined by trust in God. The book addresses the issue of the relation between belief and faith, the issue of what Søren Kierkegaard called the subjectivity of faith, and the issue of the relation between religious belief and religious experience. After the introductory chapter the book continues with a chapter in which features and forms of belief allowed by the general concept of belief are presented. Several of these forms and features are related to the features of religious belief examined in succeeding chapters. The book's final chapter examines God-relationships in the Christian tradition that de-emphasize belief and are not defined by belief.

Authors and Affiliations

  • California State University, Department of Philosophy, Northridge, USA

    James Kellenberger

About the author

James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. His previous books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (1997), Dying to Self and Detachment (2017), and Religious Revelation (2021).

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