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(2012) Faith, fallibility, and the virtue of anxiety, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Traditionally, the Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam—have all treated faith in "revealed truth" as, among other things, an epistemic compensation for the imperfection of human reason. In terms of what we now would call existential psychology, this compensation has typically been understood as offering an antidote to the "problem of anxiety" On this traditional view, not only the anxiety associated with our ontic condition (our mortality) but also the anxiety associated with our epistemic condition (our fallibility) is alleviated through the embrace of a faithful certainty in the core dogmas of the religion.
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Malone-France, D. (2012). Anxiety, in Faith, fallibility, and the virtue of anxiety, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 21-49.
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