Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Current Challenges 1 Chapter 1. Swinburne and Rationalism 3 Chapter 2. Postliberalism and Lindbeck 35 Chapter 3. The Anti-foundationalism of Thiemann 49 Chapter 4. Schleiermacher and Absolute Dependence 87 Chapter 5. Rahner’s “God” 117 Chapter 6. An Alternative Approach 139 Notes 157 Select Bibliography 173 Index 179 Contents 00 inman front:Layout 1 2/20/08 10:18 AM Page vii 00 inman front:Layout 1 2/20/08 10:18 AM Page viii With very great pleasure I record my thanks to Philip Endean, my doctoral supervisor, for teaching me so much, for his care and kindness , and for always being at the end of an e-mail in no matter what part of the world. My examiner, Janet Martin Soskice, provided invaluable advice for the revision of the dissertation into its present form, as did an anonymous reader for the University of Notre Dame Press. I am also grateful to Michael Kirwan and Anna Abram, who were doctoral students with me at Heythrop College in the University of London, for their friendship and encouragement then and now. When the task I had set myself seemed overwhelming, I received very necessary encouragement from Laurence Hemming, Dean of Research Students; my thanks go to him and to all the staff at Heythrop College for their help and kindness over the years. Without the unfailing support of David, my husband, this work would not have been possible at all. This book is dedicated to him. My thanks also go to our sons, Ben and Tom, who, by simply being there, have made their own invaluable contribution. ix Acknowledgments 00 inman front:Layout 1 2/20/08 10:18 AM Page ix 00 inman front:Layout 1 2/20/08 10:18 AM Page x ...