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Justification by faith

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

KENT DUNNINGTON
KENT DUNNINGTON*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, California, 90639, USA
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e-mail: kent.dunnington@biola.edu
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Abstract

This article advances a non-doxastic account of saving faith that nevertheless emphasizes the connection between faith and belief. I argue that saving faith epistemically justifies some religious beliefs. I offer an account that is meant to show how faith can play a variety of significant roles it is often purported to play, that is, how a specific virtue of faith can secure salvation, epistemically justify theistic belief, practically justify religious ways of life, and belong to practitioners of different religions. The account also provides an alternative to evidentialist, fideist, and Reformed Epistemology approaches to faith and reason.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 527 - 547
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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