The Will to Imagine : A Justification of Skeptical Religion.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Purifying Faith: Why the Best Religion Is the Most Skeptical -- 1. Ultimism and the Aims of Human Immaturity -- 2. Faith without Details, or How to Practice Skeptical Religion -- 3. Simple Faith and the Complexities of Tradition -- Part II. Testing Faith: Is the Best Religion Good Enough (to Satisfy Reason's Demands)? -- 4. The Structure of Faith Justification -- 5. How Skeptical Faith Is True to Reason -- Part III. Renewing Faith (1): How Skeptical Proof Subsumes Believing Argument-Evidentialism -- 6. Anselm's Idea -- 7. Leibniz's Ambition -- 8. Paley's Wonder -- Part IV. Renewing Faith (2): How Skeptical Proof Subsumes Believing Argument-Nonevidentialism -- 9. Pascal's Wager -- 10. Kant's Postulate -- 11. James's Will -- Part V. Keeping Faith: Skeptical Religion as Reason's Demand -- 12. Faith Is Positively Justified: The Many Modes of Religious Vision -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Definitions -- Appendix B: Principles -- Index.

Where other works treat religious skepticism as a dead end, The Will to Imagine argues that skepticism is the only point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry--and in religion itself--can be made.

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