02575cam a2200349 a 4500 47899 47899 15519389 AU-EpEBC 20170418110724.0 081112s2009 miu b 001 0 eng 2008049506 GBA8D7146 bnb 014845550 Uk 9780801035999 (pbk.) 0801035996 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn244560688 DLC DLC YDXCP UKM NEMB BT771.3 .P48 2009 231.042 Peters, James R., 1957- The logic of the heart : Augustine, Pascal, and the rationality of faith / James R. Peters. Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2009. 300 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index. Introduction: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "embeddedness" of reason -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the postmodern world? -- Skeptics of modernity: embedded rationality versus rational autonomy -- Embedded reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic apologists: human wisdom as passionate self-knowledge -- Hume, Pascal, and the humility of reason -- Hume's skepticism and the wisdom of the heart -- Hume's epistemological refutation of theism -- Three answers from the enquiry -- Hume's attack on and misunderstanding of miracles -- Hume's psychological refutation of theism -- Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal): opposing rationalities in conflict -- Pascal, paradox, and the wisdom of the heart -- Pascal and the rationality of faith -- Pascal's dialectical defense of faith -- Pascal's teleological apologetics -- Pascal: faith is rational but beyond reason -- Pascal's wager: unmasking skeptical neutrality -- Pascal versus fideism: faith is not contrary to reason -- Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle: conclusions -- A dialectical defense of Pascal's paradox argument: Pascal versus radical postmodernism -- The radical postmodern challenge to Pascal's paradox argument -- Radical postmodernism's fourfold hermeneutics of unmasking -- Postmodernism as "hypermodernism". Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Hume, David, 1711-1776. Faith History of doctrines. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc AM 0 0 ddc 0 0 9 MAIN MAIN OPEN 2017-04-18 Tabor 0 231.042 PET 18531 2017-04-18 00:00:00 1 2017-04-18 AM