Religious Disagreement and Pluralism

Matthew A. Benton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University, where he has taught since 2016. Prior to that he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and at the University of Oxford. He earned a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University. He works primarily in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of language.Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. He was previously Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, Professor and Department Chair at the University of Missouri, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. He works primarily in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, with related work in the philosophy of language and logic. He has published 18 books, and his work has been supported by grants from the Marc Sanders Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Templeton Religion Trust.

• 1: Matthew A. Benton: Disagreement and Religion: Problems and Prospects2: Laura Frances Callahan: Disagreement, Testimony, and Religious Understanding3: Sanford Goldberg: How Confident Should the Religious Believer Be in the Face of Religious Pluralism?4: Margaret Greta Turnbull: Religious Disagreement is Not Unique5: Richard Feldman: Is There Anything Special about Religious Disagreement?6: Joshua Blanchard and L.A. Paul: Transformative Experience and the Problem of Religious Disagreement7: Nathan L. King: The Apologist's Dilemma8: John Pittard: Rationalist Resistance to Disagreement-Motivated Religious Skepticism9: Jonathan L. Kvanvig: How to Be an Inclusivist10: Katherine Dormandy: The Loyalty of Religious Disagreement11: Isaac Choi: Democracy of the Dead? The Relevance of Majority Opinion in Theology

Scholarly and well reasoned, Religious Disagreement and Pluralism accomplishes its goals of explicating the challenges to justified belief raised by religious pluralism. It does this using the unique toolbox that analytic philosophy brings to understanding reality and succeeds at showing the power of these approaches to raise new challenges and bring new clarity...there is much that can be learned and widely applied. Benton and Kvanvig have brought together a worthwhile resource for philosophy of religion students and teachers.