Responses to the Enlightenment:

An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community

by Hendrik Hart and William Sweet

Ansterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012


CONTENTS

EDITORIAL FOREWORD xi
    KENNETH A. BRYSON

PREFACE xv

ONE Reason and Religion 1
    HENDRIK HART

TWO Liberalism, Pluralism, and Lived Faith 29
    HENDRIK HART

THREE Anti-Foundationalism and the Nature of Religious Belief 43
    WILLIAM SWEET

FOUR Faith as Trust and Belief as Intellectual Credulity 61
    HENDRIK HART

FIVE Faith, Belief, and Religious Truth 67
    WILLIAM SWEET

SIX Discourse and Religious Truth 75
    WILLIAM SWEET

SEVEN Religious Belief, Meaning, and Argument 93
    WILLIAM SWEET

EIGHT Religious Belief and Community 115
    WILLIAM SWEET

NINE Intersectionality and Love 137
    WILLIAM SWEET

TEN Sorting Out Reason 153
    HENDRIK HART

ELEVEN Focused in Faith: The Epistemology of Faith as a Way of Knowing 181
   
HENDRIK HART

TWELVE The Give-and-Take of Cross-Traditional Discourse 215
    HENDRIK HART

THIRTEEN Distinguishing to Unite: Reason, Religion, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment 235
    WILLIAM SWEET

WORKS CITED 263

APPENDIX 269

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 275

INDEX 277