Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190922856.003.0002
J. Stackhouse
This chapter sets out a basic epistemology of religious choice. It presents a set of guidelines for how to think about making a decision about religion in a responsible way. It surveys how faith depends upon knowledge, since no one believes anything on no grounds whatsoever. But it also shows how knowledge depends upon faith: upon trusting a wide range of sources (senses, memories, other people, and more) and the ability to understand and infer reasonable conclusions from all that input. The chapter concludes with commonsense recommendations for dealing with the unavoidable uncertainty that attends all big choices in life.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190922856.003.0003
J. Stackhouse
This chapter begins by offering a fourfold scheme for analyzing the essentials of any religion by which the rest of the book’s argument will proceed. What’s real? What’s best? What’s wrong? And what can be done? It then clears away many half-remembered, half-understood, and half-correct conceptualizations that most educated people have about Christianity in our time. Proceeding to the basic teachings of Christianity, it zeroes in on the key plotline of the Bible, setting out a Christian Story that is at once familiar and yet very strange, a Story that seems to defy common sense even as it makes sense on its own terms.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190922856.003.0006
J. Stackhouse
This chapter offers a brief challenge to the reader to undertake due diligence and to come to a prompt decision in the matter of religious choice. One must do one’s homework, yes, but without undue delay. For why not enjoy a better life as soon as one can?
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