Reflection on the Relation between Religious Belief and Religious Experience as Its Putative Ground: With a Focus on Debates in Analytic Philosophy of Religion
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One of the central claims of “Reformed Epistemology” is that belief in God is properly basic. Alvin Plantinga, a leading scholar in Reformed Epistemology, argues that it is entirely acceptable and rational to accept belief in God without any argument or evidence whatever. However, according to Plantinga, it does not follow from this that religious beliefs are groundless or gratuitous, for they are grounded in and justified by the experiential situation in which they have arisen. This paper addresses whether religious experience can provide any ground or basis for religious belief, by introducing and examining arguments on religious belief and religious experience by such philosophers of religion in the analytic tradition as Plantinga, William Alston, Philip Quinn, John Hick, Stewart Goetz, and Wayne Proudfoot. To that end, I first introduce Plantinga’s and Alston’s arguments that religious beliefs are grounded in and justified by religious experience. Second, examining Quinn’s debate with Plantinga, I disclose a problem in Plantinga’s and Alston’s arguments. I then investigate Hick’s position on this issue, asking whether his position can be an answer to the problem. Finally, reflecting on the interpretive nature of religious experience, I argue that any appeal to religious experience as the justification for religious belief is of itself inadequate.
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One of the central claims of “Reformed Epistemology” is that belief in God is properly basic. Alvin Plantinga, a leading scholar in Reformed Epistemology, argues that it is entirely acceptable and rational to accept belief in God without any argument or evidence whatever. However, according to Plantinga, it does not follow from this that religious beliefs are groundless or gratuitous, for they are grounded in and justified by the experiential situation in which they have arisen. This paper addresses whether religious experience can provide any ground or basis for religious belief, by introducing and examining arguments on religious belief and religious experience by such philosophers of religion in the analytic tradition as Plantinga, William Alston, Philip Quinn, John Hick, Stewart Goetz, and Wayne Proudfoot. To that end, I first introduce Plantinga’s and Alston’s arguments that religious beliefs are grounded in and justified by religious experience. Second, examining Quinn’s debate with Plantinga, I disclose a problem in Plantinga’s and Alston’s arguments. I then investigate Hick’s position on this issue, asking whether his position can be an answer to the problem. Finally, reflecting on the interpretive nature of religious experience, I argue that any appeal to religious experience as the justification for religious belief is of itself inadequate.
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