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  1. In defence of a contented religious exclusivism.Jerome Gellman - 2000 - Religious Studies 36 (4):401-417.
    In this paper I defend the possibility that a ‘contented religious exclusivist’, will be fully rational and not neglectful of any of her epistemic duties when faced with the world’s religious diversity. I present an epistemic strategy for reflecting on one's beliefs and then present two features of religious belief that make contented exclusivism a rational possibility. I then argue against the positions of John Hick, David Basinger, and Steven Wykstra on contented exclusivism, and criticize an overly optimistic conception of (...)
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    Experience of God an the Rationality of Theistic Belief.Jerome I. Gellman - 1997 - Cornell Up.
    Introduction i This work is a sustained argument for the rationality of belief in God based on the evidence that across various religions down through history people seem to have experienced God.1 If we conf1ne ourselves to rationality ...
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    Mysticism.Jerome Gellman - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    A Surviving Version of the Common Sense Problem of Evil.Jerome Gellman - 2017 - Faith and Philosophy 34 (1):82-92.
    Chris Tweedt has offered a solution to the “common sense problem of evil,” on which that there is gratuitous evil is justified non-inferentially as a trivial inference from non-inferentially justified premises by invoking versions of CORNEA. Tweedt claims his solution applies not only to the versions of the common sense problem of evil offered by Paul Draper and Trent Dougherty, but also to that offered by me in this journal in 1992. Here I argue that Tweedt fails to defeat this (...)
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  5. On God, Suffering and Theodical Individualism.Jerome Gellman - 2010 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 2 (1):187 - 191.
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    Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Inquiry.Jerome Gellman - 2001 - Routledge.
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  7. Jean Paul Sartre: The Mystical Atheist.Jerome Gellman - 2009 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (2):127 - 137.
    Within Jean Paul Sartre’s atheistic program, he objected to Christian mysticism as a delusory desire for substantive being. I suggest that a Christian mystic might reply to Sartre’s attack by claiming that Sartre indeed grasps something right about the human condition but falls short of fully understanding what he grasps. Then I argue that the true basis of Sartre’s atheism is neither philosophical nor existentialist, but rather mystical. Sartre had an early mystical atheistic intuition that later developed into atheistic mystical (...)
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  8. Prospects for a sound stage 3 of cosmological arguments.Jerome Gellman - 2000 - Religious Studies 36 (2):195-201.
    Recently, "Religious Studies" published an article by Richard Gale and Alexander Pruss, arguing that there exists a necessary being who is a creator of the world. Building on their argument, I argue that, assuming that there is exactly one creator, that creator is essentially omnipotent.
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    Mysticism and religious experience.Jerome I. Gellman - 2005 - In William J. Wainwright (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press. pp. 138--167.
    This chapter discusses wide and narrow definitions of “mystical experience” and of “religious experience”; categories and attributes of mystical experience; perennialism vs. constructivism; on the possibility of experiencing God; epistemology: The doxastic practice approach and the argument from perception; criticisms of the doxastic practice approach and the argument from perception; religious diversity; naturalistic explanations; and mysticism, religious experience, and gender.
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    A Surviving Version of the Common Sense Problem of Evil.Jerome Gellman - 2017 - Faith and Philosophy 34 (1):82-92.
    Chris Tweedt has offered a solution to the “common sense problem of evil,” on which that there is gratuitous evil is justified non-inferentially as a trivial inference from non-inferentially justified premises by invoking versions of CORNEA. Tweedt claims his solution applies not only to the versions of the common sense problem of evil offered by Paul Draper and Trent Dougherty, but also to that offered by me in this journal in 1992. Here I argue that Tweedt fails to defeat this (...)
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  11. Religious Diversity and the Epistemic Justification of Religious Belief.Jerome Gellman - 1993 - Faith and Philosophy 10 (3):345-364.
    There exists a diversity of "evidence-free" religions, contradicting one an- other. There will be an epistemic problem for a religious devotee either because evidence-free belief is in general not epistemically justified in the face of diversity, or because of a special problem in the religious case. I argue that in general evidence-free belief is epistemically justified in the face of diversity. Then I argue that recent arguments of Wykstra and Basinger fail to show that there is a special problem in (...)
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    On a New Logical Problem of Evil.Jerome Gellman - 2015 - Faith and Philosophy 32 (4):439-452.
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    Omnipotence and Impeccability.Jerome Gellman - 1977 - New Scholasticism 51 (1):21-37.
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    The Experience of Evil and Support for Atheism.Jerome Gellman - 2013 - In Justin P. McBrayer & Daniel Howard‐Snyder (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil. Oxford, UK: Wiley. pp. 98–112.
    In this chapter, I put aside typical arguments from experienced evil to the belief that God does not exist. Instead, in the first section, my focus is on how experiences of evil provide epistemic support for atheism by analogy with the ways philosophers have claimed experiences allegedly of God provide support for theistic belief. In the second section, I will sketch other ways in which atheism gets support when a person experiences evil, ways not analogous to how philosophers have thought (...)
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    The limits of maximal power.Jerome I. Gellman - 1989 - Philosophical Studies 55 (3):329 - 336.
  16. On an Alleged Proof of Atheism: Reply to John Park.Jerome Gellman - 2015 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (3):267--274.
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  17. A Theistic, Universe-Based, Theodicy of Human Suffering and Immoral Behavior.Jerome Gellman - 2012 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (4):107--122.
    In what follows I offer an explanation for the evils in our world that should be a live option for theists who accept middle knowledge. My explanation depends on the possibility of a multiverse of radically different kinds of universes. Persons must pass through various universes, the sequence being chosen by God on an individual basis, until reaching God’s goal for them. Our universe is depicted as governed much by chance, and I give a justification, in light of my thesis, (...)
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  18. Ersatz Belief and Real Belief.Jerome Gellman - 2019 - Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (1):39-53.
    Philosophers have given much attention to belief and knowledge. Here I introduce an epistemic category close to but different from belief, that I call ‘ersatz’belief. Recognition of this category refines our catalogue of epistemic attitudes in an important way.
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    The name of God.Jerome I. Gellman - 1995 - Noûs 29 (4):536-543.
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  20. I Called to God from a Narrow Place a Wide Future for Philosophy of Religion.Jerome Gellman - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (1):43 - 66.
    I urge philosophers of religion to investigate far more vigorously than they have until now the acceptability of varied components of the world religions and their epistemological underpinnings. By evaluating "acceptability" I mean evaluation of truth, morality, spiritual efficacy and human flourishing, in fact, any value religious devotees might think significant to their religious lives. Secondly, I urge that philosophers of religion give more attention to what scholars have called the "esoteric" level of world religions, including components of strong ineffability, (...)
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    Review of Peter Chong-Beng Gan, Dialectics and the Sublime in Underhill’s Mysticism: Springer Singapore, 2015, ISBN: 978-981-287-483-2, hb, x+243pp. [REVIEW]Jerome Gellman - 2017 - Sophia 56 (1):133-134.
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    Abraham! Abraham!: Kierkegaard and the Hasidim on the Binding of Isaac.Jerome I. Gellman - 2003 - Routledge.
    Abraham! Abraham! is an adventure in contemporary theology addressing the akedah (the binding or sacrifice of Isaac) inspired by Kierkegaard and by the Hasidim, especially Rabbi Nachman of Breslav and Rabbi Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica. Gellman presents his version of Kierkegaard and compares and contrasts this with Hasidic thinkers. He then proceeds to employ Kierkegaardian and Hasidic themes to develop a contemporary reading of the story, and, in contrast, presents an understanding of the akedah from Sarah's point of view. (...)
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  23. In Defense of Petitionary Prayer.Jerome I. Gellman - 1997 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1):83-97.
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    It is logically impossible for everlasting God to fall into boredom.Jerome Gellman - 2018 - Religious Studies 54 (2):285-288.
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    Naming, and Naming God.Jerome I. Gellman - 1993 - Religious Studies 29 (2):193 - 216.
    In what follows I wish to make a contribution to the clarification of the logic of the name . I will do so in two stages. In the first stage I will be investigating the meaning of names in general, and how names refer. In the second stage I will attempt to apply the findings of the first stage to the name , in light of the way that name functions in religious discourse.
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  26. Todd C. Moody, Does God Exist? Reviewed by.Jerome I. Gellman - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17 (4):269-270.
     
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  27. Non-Existence, Modalities, and Anselm's Ontological Argument.Jerome I. Gellman - 1970 - Dissertation, Wayne State University
     
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  28. On arguing from God's possibility to his necessity.Jerome I. Gellman - 1979 - Logique Et Analyse 22 (88):525.
     
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  29. Timothy A. Robinson, ed., God. [REVIEW]Jerome Gellman - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17:208-209.
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  30. Todd C. Moody, Does God Exist? [REVIEW]Jerome Gellman - 1997 - Philosophy in Review 17:269-270.
     
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    The Fear, the Trembling, and the Fire: Kierkegaard and Hasidic Masters on the Binding of Isaac.Jerome I. Gellman - 1993 - Upa.
    This book is an investigation into authenticity, certainty, and self-hood as they arise in the story of the binding of Isaac. Gellman provides a new interpretation of Kierkegaard with select Hasidic commentary. Contents: INTRODUCTION: Background to the Book; Hasidism and Existentialism; Preview of the Chapters; THE FEAR AND THE TREMBLING: Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling; The Problem of Hearing and the Problem of Choice; The 'Ethical' for Kierkegaard; The 'Voice of God' for Kierkegaard; The Resolution of the Problems; THE UNCERTAINTY: Mordecai (...)
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  32. The History of Evil.Jerome Gellman (ed.) - forthcoming - Acumen Press.
     
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  33. The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today - 1950 to 2018 CE.Jerome Gellman, Chad Meister & Charles Taliaferro (eds.) - 2018 - Routledge Press.
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  34. Why I am a Jew.Jerome Gellman - 2022 - In Mark A. Lamport (ed.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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    Rationality and Religious Theism.Paul Helm & Jerome Gellman - 2003 - Routledge.
    Throughout the ages one of the central topics in philosophy of religion has been the rationality of theistic belief. This book proposes that parties on both sides of this debate might shift their attention in a different direction, by focusing on the question of whether it is rational to be a religious theist. Explaining that having theistic beliefs is primarily a cognitive affair but being a religious theist involves a whole way of life that includes one's beliefs, Golding argues that (...)
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    Inductive evidence for other minds.Jerome I. Gellman - 1974 - Philosophical Studies 25 (July):323-336.
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    Beyond Belief.Jerome Gellman - 2006 - Faith and Philosophy 23 (3):299-313.
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    Hasidic mysticism as an activism.Jerome Gellman - 2006 - Religious Studies 42 (3):343-349.
    In her important work, Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth Century Hasidic Thought, the late Rivkah Schatz-Uffenheimer depicted early eighteenth-century Hasidism as a movement with pronounced ‘quietist tendencies’. In this paper I raise several difficulties with this thesis. These follow from social-activist features of early Hasidism as well as from a selection from the writings of leading early Hasidic masters. I conclude that a major stream of thought in early Hasidim was not quietist in tendency. Finally, I compare the (...)
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    Plantinga-Warrant and Reliabilist Warrant.Jerome Gellman - 2014 - Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 18 (2):291.
    I argue that reliabilist warrant should not require that a true belief have been produced in accordance with a design plan. At least sometimes, it seems sufficient that there be an intent for the faculty to have the reliable outcomes it in fact has. This pertains to the notion of warrant of Alvin Plantinga.
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    Critical Study of Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.Jerome Gellman - 2008 - Philo 11 (2):193-202.
    I examine the two main arguments that Richard Dawkins offers in The God Delusion to convince believers that God does not exist. Dawkins’ arguments, as stated, are not successful. Neither do sympathetic extensive reformulations have what it takes to require a believer to admit that God probably does not exist. I further argue against Dawkins’ assuming that belief in God, if legitimate, can be only a scientific hypothesis.
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    Suter on Russell on meinong.Jerome I. Gellman - 1969 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (3):441-445.
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    Beyond Belief.Jerome Gellman - 2006 - Faith and Philosophy 23 (3):299-313.
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    Religion as Language.Jerome I. Gellman - 1985 - Religious Studies 21 (2):159 - 168.
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    Religious Experience, Justification and History. [REVIEW]Jerome Gellman - 2002 - Faith and Philosophy 19 (3):379-385.
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    Naming, and Naming God: JEROME I. GELLMAN.Jerome I. Gellman - 1993 - Religious Studies 29 (2):193-216.
    In what follows I wish to make a contribution to the clarification of the logic of the name ‘God’. I will do so in two stages. In the first stage I will be investigating the meaning of names in general, and how names refer. In the second stage I will attempt to apply the findings of the first stage to the name ‘God’, in light of the way that name functions in religious discourse.
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    Ward’s Trinity and the Stubborn Jews.Jerome Gellman - 2016 - Philosophia Christi 18 (2):375-385.
    My paper addresses the possibility of Jews and Christians becoming theologically closer than in the past, given Ward’s Trinity. I address the question of whether Ward’s version of the Trinity necessarily clashes with Jewish tradition. I contend that it does not so clash, especially because for Ward Jesus is only a contingent instantiation of the Word. A Jew could accept the purely logical implications of the Wardian Trinity. I then present a new Jewish theology of Jesus, one that is sympathetic (...)
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    Maimonides' "Ravings".Jerome I. Gellman - 1991 - Review of Metaphysics 45 (2):309 - 328.
    MAIMONIDES the great systematizer of Jewish Law, left no systematic philosophy for later generations. His philosophical legacy consists mainly of his Guide of the Perplexed and a few lesser philosophical tracts. The Guide is notoriously informal and unsystematic, moving from topic to topic in a manner that appears at times to have no inner logic. The lesser tracts yield only fragments of a whole. In addition, for whatever reasons, Maimonides felt obliged to conceal at least some of his true philosophical (...)
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  48. Jeff Jordan and Daniel Howards-Snyder, eds., Faith, Freedom, and Rationality, Philosophy of Religion Today Reviewed by.Jerome I. Gellman - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (5):355-357.
     
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    Religious Language: JEROME I. GELLMAN.Jerome I. Gellman - 1985 - Religious Studies 21 (2):159-168.
    When are sentences A and B the same belief? Following Quine, observation sentences A and B are the same belief when they share the same stimulus–meaning, similar patterns of assent and dissent by subjects when the sentences are queried in the presence of the same non–linguistic stimuli. As for non–observation sentences we note a suggestion of Karl Schick: apply linguistic stimuli in the form of utterances of the language, and map the connections between sentences in the language in terms of (...)
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    The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy, from Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century. [REVIEW]Jerome Gellman - 2011 - Faith and Philosophy 28 (3):354-359.
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