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    [fullTitle] => SYNCRETISM AND THEISTIC RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES: A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT BLENDS OF BELIEF IN THE CONTEXT OF THEISM
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In  this  paper,  I  consider  syncretic  processes  as  generators  of  syncretic beliefs and discuss the question of whether the religious believer, especially the theist believer, would have reasons for trusting in the beliefs that  arise  from  this  process.  I  intend  to  answer  the  following  specific  question: Is the theist, specially the Christian theist, justified in forming and maintaining syncretic beliefs? However, the answer to the specific question is dependent on an answer to a broad question, namely, whether a believer in general is justified in forming and maintaining syncretic beliefs. For this reason, much of this article will focus on the broad question to later answer the specific question. I will argue that both in the case of syncretic beliefs in general  and  in  the  case  of  syncretic-theistic  beliefs  in  particular,  defeaters  are  unsustainable,  and  a  religious  believer  has  good  reasons  to  maintain  syncretic beliefs

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                    [givenName] => Marciano Adilio SPICA
                    [affiliation] => Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brasilien
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3935
    [datePublished] => 2022-12-16
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3935/version/1320/2986
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SYNCRETISM AND THEISTIC RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES: A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION ABOUT BLENDS OF BELIEF IN THE CONTEXT OF THEISM

Marciano Adilio SPICA
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Brasilien

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2022.3935

Abstract

In  this  paper,  I  consider  syncretic  processes  as  generators  of  syncretic beliefs and discuss the question of whether the religious believer, especially the theist believer, would have reasons for trusting in the beliefs that  arise  from  this  process.  I  intend  to  answer  the  following  specific  question: Is the theist, specially the Christian theist, justified in forming and maintaining syncretic beliefs? However, the answer to the specific question is dependent on an answer to a broad question, namely, whether a believer in general is justified in forming and maintaining syncretic beliefs. For this reason, much of this article will focus on the broad question to later answer the specific question. I will argue that both in the case of syncretic beliefs in general  and  in  the  case  of  syncretic-theistic  beliefs  in  particular,  defeaters  are  unsustainable,  and  a  religious  believer  has  good  reasons  to  maintain  syncretic beliefs

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