Afterword
The Afterword offers a personal confessio to underline what the book argues, namely, that rational considerations alone, in isolation from the intensities of personal experience, do not take us as far as we might like in philosophical-theological inquiry. Comparative debates in philosophical theology—like aesthetic appraisal, and also like judgments of relative plausibility more generally, including the courtroom rulings of skilled judges—often trade in unspoken and even unconscious preferences. We can all too easily rationalize such preferences but rational discipline requires something other than mere rationalistic evasion: we must analyze them in order to gain control over their influence in our intellectual reasoning.
1982 ◽
Vol 40
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pp. 182-185
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2010 ◽
Vol 24
(3)
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pp. 198-209
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1947 ◽
Vol 26
(11)
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pp. 379
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2014 ◽
Vol 75
(S 01)
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