On (Not) Believing That God Has Answered a Prayer

Faith and Philosophy (1):132-141 (2017)
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Scott Davison has raised an epistemic challenge to the doctrine of petitionary prayer. Roughly, the challenge is that we cannot know or have reason to believe that a prayer has been answered. Davison argues that the epistemic challenge undermines all the extant defenses of petitionary prayer. I argue that it does not.

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10.5840/faithphil201811694

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Brian Embry
University of Toronto, St. George Campus (PhD)

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.Eleonore Stump (ed.) - 1993 - Cornell Univ Pr.
The Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer.Daniel Howard-Snyder & Frances Howard-Snyder - 2010 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2 (2):43-68.
Petitionary Prayer.Eleonore Stump - 1979 - American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (2):81-91.
Is Petitionary Prayer Superfluous?Isaac Choi - 2016 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 7:32-62.

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