On (Not) Believing That God Has Answered a Prayer

Brian Embry

doi:10.5840/faithphil201811694

On (Not) Believing That God Has Answered a Prayer

Brian Embry

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Abstract

Scott Davison has raised an epistemic challenge to the doctrine of petitionary prayer. Roughly, the challenge is that we cannot know or have reason to believe that a prayer has been answered. Davison argues that the epistemic challenge undermines all the extant defenses of petitionary prayer. I argue that it does not.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	132-141
Number of pages	9
Journal	Faith and Philosophy
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5840/faithphil201811694
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Petitionary prayer

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