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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience
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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

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In this clear and provocative account of the epistemology of religious experience, William P. Alston argues that the perception of God—his term for direct experiential awareness of God—makes a major contribution to the grounds of religious belief. Surveying the variety of reported direct experiences of God, Alston demonstrates that a person can be justified in holding certain beliefs about God on the basis of mystical experience.

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Release dateJan 24, 2014
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Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

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    Read this for a religious studies class in college. I wrote a stereotypically jerky young militant atheist paper about it. It probably deserved better.

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