ABSTRACT
Foundationalism is the view that philosophical propositions are of two kinds, those which need supporting evidence, and those which in themselves provide the evidence which renders them irrefutable. This book, originally published 1988, describes the battle between foundationalism, which places belief in God in the first category, and various other approaches to the problem of faith – ‘Reformed Epistemology’, hermeneutics; and sociological analysis. In the concluding section of the book, an examination of concept formation in religious belief is used to reinterpret the gap between the expressive power of language and the reality of God.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|127 pages
Can There Be A Religious Epistemology?
chapter 2|10 pages
The Reformed Challenge to Foundationalism
chapter 3|14 pages
Preliminary Criticism of the Reformed Challenge
chapter 5|21 pages
Epistemology and Justification by Faith
chapter 6|19 pages
Religion and Epistemology
chapter 7|21 pages
A Reformed Epistemology?
chapter 8|8 pages
Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives
chapter |5 pages
Philosophy, Description and Religion
part Two|63 pages
Manners Without Grammar
chapter 10|17 pages
The Hermeneutic Option
chapter 11|6 pages
Optional Descriptions?
chapter 12|13 pages
The Hidden Values of Hermeneutics
chapter 13|16 pages
The Sociologising of Values
chapter 14|9 pages
Religion in the Marketplace
part Three|59 pages
Grammar and Theology
chapter 15|18 pages
Grammar and the Nature of Doctrine
chapter 16|12 pages
Grammar and Doctrinal Disagreement
chapter 17|13 pages
Grammar Without Foundations
chapter 18|14 pages
Grammarians and Guardians
part Four|81 pages
Religion and Concept-Formation