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David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

The Probabilistic or Bayesian Perspective on God

When I talk about faith, I meant a path towards the sacred. The question is within a tradition. That's when things become a bit more stochastic. And again, rationality is not a single, univocal sort of thing. You can also have to do with intuitions, like moral intuitions. If you come up against a teaching or something that is repugnant to your moral reasoning, then that is significant. It would be deplorable of you to choose to believe it despite the counsels of your moral reasoning.

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