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Book SynopsisBetween the opposing claims of reason and religious subjectivity may be a middle ground, William J. Wainwright argues. His book is a philosophical reflection on the role of emotion in guiding reason. There is evidence, he contends, that reason...
Trade ReviewEvidentialists have often assigned the passions an important motivational role in the assessment of religious beliefs.... In what is surely one of the most important works in epistemology in recent years, William Wainwright attempts to take us further.
-- Robert Holyer * International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion *
Reason and the Heart calls attention in a clear and forceful way to the importance of its claims, and it provides some interesting concrete examples of philosophers who have done religious epistemology in this fashion.
-- C. Stephen Evans * CrossCurrents *
Much of the... literature on the epistemology of religious belief has focused on the traditional theistic arguments, so-called Reformed epistemology, and religious experience. Wainwright's book has something to offer each of these debates, but in its own right the book charts and independent, promising project.
-- Charles Taliaferro * The Journal of Religion *
Wainwright explores the view that religious beliefs can and should be based on supporting evidence that can be accurately assessed only by people having suitable moral and spiritual capacities.... Highly recommended for all philosophy collections.
* Choice *
A close and intellectually satisfying analysis and defense of the need for proper dispositions for evaluating religious truth claims.
-- G. Simon Harak, S.J. * Theological Studies *
Wainwright succeeds in offering a clarifying account and compelling defense of a theory of justification which is now coming to receive increasing attention, and deservedly so. I recommend this book most highly.
-- M. Jamie Ferreiera * International Philosophical Quarterly *
