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Scientific researchers welcome disagreement as a way of furthering epistemic aims.
Religious communities, by contrast, tend to regard it as a potential threat to their beliefs. But I argue that religious disagreement can help achieve religious epistemic aims. I do not argue this by comparing science and religion, however. For scientific hypotheses are ideally held with a scholarly neutrality, and my aim is to persuade those who are committed to religious beliefs that religious disagreement can be epistemically beneficial for them too.
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Keywords | religious disagreement religious epistemology Reformed epistemology religious evidentialism fundamentalism dogmatism |
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