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Is Belief a Condition for Understanding?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. M. Kuitert
H. M. Kuitert
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Free University, Amsterdam
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Let us start with rephrasing the question in order to make sure that we have, roughly speaking, the same things in mind when we discuss it. There is no difficulty about the word belief. In the subtitle of my lecture, it is defined as ‘to be committed to a religion’. I propose that we stick to that definition, and see how far it brings us in our search for an answer.

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Religious Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 233 - 243
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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page 240 note 1 See A Black Theology for Liberation (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970).Google Scholar

page 242 note 1 Edwards, Rem B., Reason and Religion (Washington, D.C.: University Press, 1979, p. 373.Google Scholar