This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take. Two primary forms are discussed: propositional or doctrinal belief, and belief in God. Religious belief in God, whose affective content is trust in God, it is seen, opens for believers a relationship to God defined by trust in God. The book addresses the issue of the relation between belief and faith, the issue of what Søren Kierkegaard called the subjectivity of faith, and the issue of the relation between religious belief and religious experience. After the introductory chapter the book continues with a chapter in which features and forms of belief allowed by the general concept of belief are presented. Several of these forms and features are related to the features of religious belief examined in succeeding chapters. The book's final chapter examines God-relationships in the Christian tradition that de-emphasize belief and are not defined by belief.

Explores religious belief in its several forms, including propositional or doctrinal belief, belief - or belief-faith - in God, and implicit belief Examines the issue of the relationship between religious belief and religious experience Presents the case that in the Christian tradition there are God-relationships not defined by belief

Autorentext

The late James Kellenberger was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. Professor Kellenberger's other books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (1997), Dying to Self and Detachment (2012), and most recently Religious Revelation (2021).

Inhalt
Chap 1 Introduction.- Chap 2 Features and Forms of Belief.- Chap 3 Confessional Belief.- Chap 4 Belief in God.- Chap 5 Implicit Belief.- Chap 6 Belief and Subjectivity.-- Chap 7 Belief in Relics.- Chap 8 Religious Experience and Belief.- Chap 9 Divisions of Belief.- Chap 10 Belief/Faith in God and Other God-Relationships.