The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism

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321 Index Acceptance, 140n11, 157n28, 180, 208–209. See also Faith Accommodationist strategy, 211–216 Achilles’ heel of free will defense, 269. See also Free will; Problem of evil Active skepticism defined, 4 how linked to thesis of this book, 128–129 Adams, Marilyn M., 243–244, 253n7, 258–259 Adams, Robert M., 53–55, 272n4 Affective belief, 82–84, 120 defined, 313–314 Afterlife, 251n6, 302–303. See also Heaven Alston, William, 44 –45, 161, 166, 167–170, 172, 174–175, 177–183, 188, 189 Anabaptism, 75n5 Argument types and tokens, 109–110, 292 Armstrong, Karen, 196n2 Art, 102–103, 104 Asymmetry of Divine-creature relations, 276–277 Basic picture of the world, 172–174 Basinger, David, 178 Beatific vision, 262, 265, 266 Belief. See Affective belief; Propositional belief Belief-in. See Affective belief Belief-that. See Propositional belief Bergmann, Michael, 254n9 Blackmore, Susan, 186 Blake, William, 144 Bohm, David, 145 Boredom, 266 Borg, Marcus, 196n2 Buddhism, 66, 88, 90 Calvinism, 87–88 Camden boys, 286–287 Capacity skepticism contributes to both Limitation and Immaturity Modes, 113–115 defined, 4 how related to categorical skepticism, 4 not an essential part of Prospective Mode, 92 in Object Mode, 52 in Retrospective Mode, 69, 86–87, 90 Categorical religious skepticism central stance defended in this book, 3–4 defined, 3–4 principles for assessment of, 319 Causation, 138. See also Science Chance, 155, 156, 263, 267 Combinatorial reasoning, 109–111 Communitarian vision of inquiry, 95–96, 100 Complete skepticism, defined, 4 Confidence, 2, 29n15 Consciousness, 143–144, 154 Counterfactuals of freedom, 218, 268 Countering option, 283–284, 289 322 Index Counterparts to theistic arguments, 305–306 Dark night of the soul, 217 Davies, Brian, 60 Davison, Scott A., 220n29 Dawkins, Richard, 78n9 Deepest good, 247–252 capable of being made deeper, 254–256 defined, 244 distinguished from outweighing goods, 244. See also Free will; Problem of evil Defeater, defined, 15n1, 17 Defense, defined, 256 Dennett, Daniel, 78n9, 149n21, 190n41 Depth of ingression, 82n14 Descartes, Rene, 237 Determinism, 274–282. See also Free will Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason, 290 Dogmatism, 74–76 Doxastic practice, defined, 167 Draper, Paul, 135–136, 138, 145, 152, 156, 206n13, 240, 249n4, 254n9, 299, 300n6, 306n14 Ego-centeredness, 273 Einstein, Albert, 20, 94n2 Emotion, 79–84. See also Psychology Epicurus, 243 Epistemic circularity, 168 Epistemic imperialism, 174–175 Epistemic possibility, defined, 27n12 Everitt, Nicholas, 188n38 Evidence blocking, defined, 15 general definition of, 15 neglected, defined, 17–18 overlooked, defined, 17 representative, defined, 28 total, distinguished from examined, 28–29, 31 unblockable, 31–32 undiscoverable, defined, 18 undiscovered, defined, 18 See also Induction; Justification; Probability Evolution, 32, 151, 241–242, 272–275 Faith, 7–8, 107n8, 122–123, 127n4, 179–180, 189–190 nature of, 315–316 principles for assessment of, 317–318 See also Acceptance Fales, Evan, 186 Familiarity fallacy, 260, 264, 270–271 Findlay, J. N., 305n12 Fiorenza, Elizabeth S., 86n17 Flew, Antony, 272 Flint, Thomas P., 220n29 Forrest, Barbara, 140 Framework attitude, 120 Franks Davis, Caroline, 161n2, 184n28, 185n30, 186 Free will, 202n10, 294–296 as basis for atheism, 285–288 and defense against problem of horrors, 261–269 defined, 200n8 inadequacy of defenses based on, 282–285 and Plantinga-style defense against hiddenness problem, 218–226 and soul-making response to problem of hiddenness, 213–216 and theodicy for horrific suffering, 256–261 thought to require evolutionary structure of universe, 241–242 unneeded for authentic relationship with God, 271–282 Fumerton, Richard, 133, 140 Gale, Richard, 45n27 Galileo, 142 Gallagher, Winifred, 228n2 Gellman, Jerome I., 161n2 Global skepticism, 171–172. See also Radical skepticism God arguments for existence of, 304–306 attributes of, 54–55, 195, 199, 210, 230–233, 237, 243–245, 247, 298–300 and creation, 198–199 creaturely love for, 225, 262, 264–265, 280n11 and masculine images, 196, 204, 218 and theology, 197–198, 204, 231, 242, 267, 307 Index 323 See also Ontological argument; Relational-personal love; Relationship with God Good, the, 53–54, 214–215 Greed, 73–74 Griffiths, R. R., 187n37 Hasker, William, 39n20, 42n23, 43n25, 220n29 Heaven, 280–281. See also Afterlife Hick, John, 256n10, 271–272, 274, 275n8 Hiddenness of God. See Nonresistant nonbelief Hinduism, 88 Horgan, John, 153n25, 187n37, 228n2 Horrific suffering, defined, 243–244. See...