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Theorizing about faith with Lara Buchak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2020

DANIEL HOWARD-SNYDER Open the ORCID record for DANIEL HOWARD-SNYDER [Opens in a new window]  and
DANIEL J. MCKAUGHAN Open the ORCID record for DANIEL J. MCKAUGHAN [Opens in a new window]
DANIEL HOWARD-SNYDER*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98229, USA
DANIEL J. MCKAUGHAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Boston College, 351N Stokes Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806, USA
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e-mail: Daniel.Howard-Snyder@wwu.edu
e-mail: daniel.mckaughan@bc.edu
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Abstract

What is faith? Lara Buchak has done as much as anyone recently to answer this question in a sensible and instructive fashion. As it turns out, her writings reveal two theories of faith, an early one and a later one – or two versions of the same one if you like. In what follows, we aim to assess those theories with an eye to highlighting both their good- and bad-making features, marking choice points for theorizing about faith along the way, and defending the choices we make. The result is an alternative theory of faith, one that we hope extends our common pursuit of understanding what faith is.

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Religious Studies , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 297 - 326
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