Two Views of Religious Certitude

Religious Studies 28 (1):65 - 74 (1992)
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At least since Cardinal Newman's Grammar of Assent , Anglo-American philosophers have been concerned with the role of certitude, or subjective epistemic certainty, in theistic belief. Newman is himself famous for holding that certitude is an essential feature of any sort of genuine belief, including in particular religious belief. As one recent commentator, Michael Banner, notes, for Newman

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10.1017/s0034412500021387

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Religious Belief and Religious Skepticism.Gary Gutting - 1982 - University of Notre Dame Press.
Level-Confusions in Epistemology.William P. Alston - 1980 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5 (1):135-150.

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