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Faith as Imagination and the Despair Problem

Palmqvist, Carl-Johan LU (2021) Wings of Desire In Nordic Studies in Theology 8. p.111-125
Abstract
According to non-doxasticism, religious faith can be in an important sense belief-less. However, such faith becomes vulnerable to the despair-problem known from the literature on hope. I suggest that the problem can be overcome by adopting J. L. Schellenberg’s imagination-based account of non-doxastic faith. In developing this idea, I draw on the account of imagination offered by Amy Kind and an understanding of despair suggested by Cheshire Calhoun. The core of my proposal is that faith excludes despair if both attitudes are conceived of in terms of holding a phenomenological picture of the world in one’s imagination.
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Non-Doxastic Religion, Imagination, Schellenberg, Faith, Despair
host publication
Imagination in Religion : Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion - Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion
series title
Nordic Studies in Theology
editor
Dahl, Espen ; Henriksen, Jan-Olov and Mjaaland, Marius T.
volume
8
pages
15 pages
publisher
LIT Verlag
conference name
Wings of Desire
conference location
Aarhus, Denmark
conference dates
2019-06-13 - 2019-06-15
ISBN
978-3-643-91210-7
language
English
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yes
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  abstract     = {{According to non-doxasticism, religious faith can be in an important sense belief-less. However, such faith becomes vulnerable to the despair-problem known from the literature on hope. I suggest that the problem can be overcome by adopting J. L. Schellenberg’s imagination-based account of non-doxastic faith. In developing this idea, I draw on the account of imagination offered by Amy Kind and an understanding of despair suggested by Cheshire Calhoun. The core of my proposal is that faith excludes despair if both attitudes are conceived of in terms of holding a phenomenological picture of the world in one’s imagination.}},
  author       = {{Palmqvist, Carl-Johan}},
  booktitle    = {{Imagination in Religion : Perspectives from the Philosophy of Religion}},
  editor       = {{Dahl, Espen and Henriksen, Jan-Olov and Mjaaland, Marius T.}},
  isbn         = {{978-3-643-91210-7}},
  keywords     = {{Non-Doxastic Religion; Imagination; Schellenberg; Faith; Despair}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{111--125}},
  publisher    = {{LIT Verlag}},
  series       = {{Nordic Studies in Theology}},
  title        = {{Faith as Imagination and the Despair Problem}},
  volume       = {{8}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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