Toward Analytic Theology: An Itinerary

Georg Gasser

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2015.025

Abstract


In this paper I aim at explaining how analytic philosophical theology developed into a thriving field of research. In doing so, I place analytic philosophical theology into a larger intellectually narrative that is deeply influenced by the philosophy of Enlightenment. This larger framework shows that analytic philosophical theology aims at providing answers to concerns raised by a philosophical tradition that shaped fundamentally the making of our modern Western secular world.

Keywords


analytic philosophical theology; evidentialist objection; verificationism; reformed epistemology; the rationality of religious belief

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