Providing an original and systematic treatment of foundational issues inphilosophy of religion J. L. Schellenbergs new book addresses the structureof religious ... » 

Providing an original and systematic treatment of foundational issues inphilosophy of religion J. L. Schellenbergs new book addresses the structureof religious and irreligious belief the varieties of religious scepticism andthe nature of religion itself. From the authors searching analysis of faithemerges a novel understanding of propositional faith as requiring the absenceof belief. Schellenberg asks what the aims of the field should be setting outa series of principles for carrying out some of the most important of theseaims. His account of justification considers not only belief but also otherresponses to religious claims and distinguishes the justification of responsespropositions and persons. Throughout Prolegomena to a Philosophy of ReligionSchellenberg is laying the groundwork for an elaboration of his own visionwhile at the same time suggesting how philosophers might rethink assumptionsguiding most of todays work in analytic philosophy of religion. «