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epistemic humility

Coming to Terms with Mystery: A Brief Reflection on Cognitive Closure

March 31, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I offer a reflection on cognitive closure (the limitations of our minds to grasp reality) and the implications that fact has for epistemic humility. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: cognitive closure, epistemic humility

A Quick Word on the Total Evidence for Theism

April 18, 2020 by Randal

Occasionally, I hear people make claims about how the “total evidence” does or does not support theism. Those people are incorrect: *nobody* has considered all the expansive evidence for/against that claim. Nor is it feasible that any person ever will. The total evidence includes not only thousands of publicly available arguments and lines of evidence […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemic humility, evidence, theism

What Does It Mean to be a Tentative Apologist?

March 17, 2020 by Randal

It was the summer of 1996 and I was taking my first course in graduate school. The course was taught by Australian New Testament scholar Paul Barnett on the historical Jesus. After class, I was chatting with another student about the reasons we were taking the class. I still recall saying to him, “I’m taking […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, epistemic humility, Tentative Apologist

Encountering Mystery at the Summer Waterslide

August 15, 2018 by Randal

This article is equal parts summer nostalgia and rumination on mystery. But let’s start with the summer nostalgia. Summer Nostalgia I grew up in the 1980s when land prices were sufficiently low that it made sense to devote a large tract of land to a summertime waterslide. (Sadly, those days are long gone and that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemic humility, epistemology, mystery, rationality, theology

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