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Pluralism and ineffability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

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DAVID CHEETHAM*
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Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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In a tribute to the work of Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff characterizes a form of the analytic tradition in philosophy of religion, which neither he nor Plantinga endorses, as a brand of Kant-rationality. What such rationality aims to achieve is, above all, a universality of rational agreement, or rather ‘a foundation that is acceptable to all rational reflective human-beings’, something that could be acknowledged by ‘all cognitively competent adult human beings’ who had access to the same relevant information or facts.

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Religious Studies , Volume 56 , Special Issue 1: Philosophy of Religions: Cross-Cultural, Multi-Religious Approaches , March 2020 , pp. 95 - 110
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