Religious Experience

The transition from classical to romantic art represents a liberation of art from religion and of religion from art and the sensuous.

There is no need to suppose that religious beliefs are true

A belief that depends on historical or scientific approximation would not be genuine faith.

A claim of direct divine experience must be accepted if it is well founded and grips the heart completely

A convincing claim of divine contact with flesh and blood requires four criteria of evidence

A morality founded on religion is a necessary concomitant of a revealed religion.

A mystic who undergoes a PCE can recall immediately afterward the awareness that was present during the PCE

A person who experiences God through moral experience may have reasonable belief in God without a moral argument

A scientist can be a believer in religious tenets

A subject cannot surmise that a PCE occurred by remembering a 'before' and an 'after' with an unaccounted-for middle period.

Abraham's obedience to God's command cannot be adjudicated by public reason

Acceptance of theistic hope provides reason to act as if theism were true

Accepting a foundational faith-proposition is an all-or-nothing commitment, not a matter of degree

Accurate divination from dreams requires proper interpretation by a diviner

Acting as if a religious tradition were true includes engaging in its rituals and investing time and money in its associated causes

Action cannot produce liberation because liberation is already one's present reality, not a future attainment.

Adherents of non-Christian religions can enter God's presence even without awareness of Jesus's redemptive acts.

All beings, including non-sentient things like grasses, trees, and the land itself, hold the potential for awakening.

Alston's argument for the rationality of Christian doxastic practice can be undermined.

Alston's argument for the rationality of Christian religious-experience practice may also justify other religious doxastic practices.

Alston's inference from practical rationality to epistemic rationality is illegitimate.

An ordinary emotion such as gratitude becomes religious when combined with the feeling of absolute dependence.

An ordinary person who is aware of moral obligations has a kind of de re awareness of God.

Any conceivable divine revelation must choose its means from a restricted list of discreet evidences (e.g., sense of divine presence, internal communication such as dreams and visions, fulfilled prophecies, Resurrection, Incarnation).

Anybody who meets certain requirements will automatically become a prophet.

Apologetic arguments are not necessary for proper faith, nor the epistemic basis for faith.

Aristoxenus is not simply rationalizing Pythagoreanism

Attempting to gain or reach liberation while presupposing its distance causes liberation to recede further rather than approach.

Authentic religious sentiment is more likely to be found in nature than in a church

Average people need virtuous guidance from a prophet to live in accordance with truth.