{"id":867,"date":"2024-03-26T05:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/a-comparison-of-the-roles-of-doubt-in-philosophy-and-in-religion\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T05:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:40:46","slug":"a-comparison-of-the-roles-of-doubt-in-philosophy-and-in-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/a-comparison-of-the-roles-of-doubt-in-philosophy-and-in-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comparison of the Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and in Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/a-comparison-of-the-roles-of-doubt?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Top<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> o&#39; the<em> Stack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">This morning I preach on&#0160;<em>James<\/em>&#0160;1:5-8. Of all the epistles, this, the most philosophical, is my favorite. There we read that he who is wanting in wisdom should ask it of God. But one must ask in faith without doubt or hesitation. &quot;For he who hesitates\/doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and carried about by the wind.&quot;&#0160; While I do not deny that doubt&#0160; can close us off from the help we need, I wonder whether doubt has a positive role to play in religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Doubt is the engine of rational inquiry, and thus of philosophy and science, as I have said many times, but I think it also plays a salutary role in religion.&#0160;&#0160;Here are six reasons why.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#39; the Stack. This morning I preach on&#0160;James&#0160;1:5-8. Of all the epistles, this, the most philosophical, is my favorite. There we read that he who is wanting in wisdom should ask it of God. But one must ask in faith without doubt or hesitation. &quot;For he who hesitates\/doubts is like a wave of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/a-comparison-of-the-roles-of-doubt-in-philosophy-and-in-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Comparison of the Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and in Religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,20,139,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athens-and-jerusalem","category-metaphilosophy","category-religion","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}