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Divine Presence and Epistemic Trust

Authors: Jerry Martin;

Divine Presence and Epistemic Trust

Abstract

The experience of divine presence is compelling. Yet it immediately confronts the Epistemology of Doubt that has dominated modern philosophy since Descartes. Among its many limitations, this tradition is ill-equipped to understand divine self-presentation. But an alternative tradition can be conceived. Drawing on Thomas Reid and G. E. Moore, as well as other thinkers, we can envision an Epistemics of Trust. This is not so much a theory (like those offered by Alston and Plantinga) as a research program, in the sense expounded by Imre Lakatos, that would address a wide range of knowings. It is here applied to two experiences of divine presence, Moses’ and the author’s own. The analysis illuminates not only the experiences, but the nature of the divine reality presenting itself.

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