Beyond Faith and Reason : Epistemic Justification in Earliest Christianity
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Graeco-Latina Brunensia |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/GLB2016-2-11 |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Early Christian Literature; faith and reason; epistemic justification; apologetics; miracles; morality; divine inspiration |
| Description | Much of the scholarly discussion pertaining to epistemological assumptions regarding the earliest Christian authors has been framed by a series of dichotomies, placing “faith” and “religion” on one side and “reason” and “philosophy” on the other. I argue in this paper that uncritical use of these hard-to-define and overly general concepts as blanket categories to analyse Christian writings from the first three centuries CE inevitably causes major methodological issues and could be seen as heuristically unjustified. I suggest that a more frugal approach may be initiated by reconceptualizing the traditional “faith” vs. “reason” dichotomy in terms of the concept of personal and impersonal epistemic justification. |
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