The Miracle of Minimal Foundationalism: Religious Experience and Justified Belief
Religious Studies September 1, 1993 DOI: 10.1017/s0034412500022356 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The excerpt reports that philosophers of religion have increasingly debated the justificatory value of religious experiences for theism, and that this literature has split into two parallel but largely separate debates. No specific argument or conclusion is stated in the available text. |
Abstract
Once we accept anyone's postulates he becomes our professor and our god: for his foundations he will grab territory so ample and so easy that, if he so wishes, he will drag us up to the clouds. Montaigne During the last fifteen years, the community of philosophers interested in religion has evinced a waxing concern with the justificatory value of religious experiences for theism. Two parallel but largely discrete debates have appeared in the literature.