Religious Disagreement and Pluralism

by Benton, Matthew A.; Kvanvig, Jonathan L.

• ISBN13: 9780198849865
• ISBN10: 0198849869
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Matthew A. Benton, Seattle Pacific University,Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Washington University-St. Louis

Matthew A. Benton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University, where he has taught since 2016. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Oxford. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers
University. He works primarily in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, Professor and Department Chair at the University of Missouri, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. He works
primarily in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, with related work in the philosophy of language and logic. He has published 18 books, and his work has been supported by grants from the Marc Sanders Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Templeton Religion
Trust.

Table of Contents

1. Disagreement and Religion: Problems and Prospects, Matthew A. Benton
2. Disagreement, Testimony, and Religious Understanding, Laura Frances Callahan
3. How Confident Should the Religious Believer Be in the Face of Religious Pluralism?, Sanford Goldberg
4. Religious Disagreement is Not Unique, Margaret Greta Turnbull
5. Is There Anything Special about Religious Disagreement?, Richard Feldman
6. Transformative Experience and the Problem of Religious Disagreement, Joshua Blanchard and L.A. Paul
7. The Apologist's Dilemma, Nathan L. King
8. Rationalist Resistance to Disagreement-Motivated Religious Skepticism, John Pittard
9. How to Be an Inclusivist, Jonathan L. Kvanvig
10. The Loyalty of Religious Disagreement, Katherine Dormandy
11. Democracy of the Dead? The Relevance of Majority Opinion in Theology, Isaac Choi