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<\/a><\/p>\nHungarian-British philosopher and polymath Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) in 1933: vanquisher of a moribund positivism, and developer of the notion of tacit knowledge<\/em>, which has strong similarities to Cardinal Newman\u2019s illative sense<\/em><\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n * * * * *<\/p>\n THEISTIC ARGUMENTS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1. AESTHETIC ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Beauty as a Road to God<\/a> (Eleonore Stump, 2007) [PDF download]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 2. \u201cPROPERLY BASIC\u201d BELIEF \/ INNATE KNOWLEDGE \/ TACIT KNOWLEDGE \u00a0\/\u00a0PLATONISM \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Must Christianity be Empirically Falsifiable?<\/a> (Dave Armstrong, 2010)<\/p>\n Non-Empirical \u201cBasic\u201d Warrant for Theism & Christianity <\/a>(Dave Armstrong, 2015)<\/p>\n Dialogue w Agnostic: God as a \u201cProperly Basic Belief\u201d<\/a> (Dave Armstrong vs. JD Eveland, 2015)<\/p>\n The Epistemology Of Soren Kierkegaard<\/a> (Siegbert W. Becker)<\/p>\n Belief in God<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2011)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Tacit Knowledge<\/a> (Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything Upon Insufficient Evidence?\u201d<\/a> (Peter van Inwagen, 1996)<\/p>\n Christian Belief and the Platonic Conception of Rationality<\/a> (Peter van Inwagen, 1999)<\/p>\n What is Analytic Philosophy? What is Naturalism?<\/a> (Peter van Inwagen, 2006)<\/p>\n Can Theology be Tacit? A Review Essay on Personal Catholicism<\/em>, by Martin X. Moleski, S. J. <\/a>(Joseph Kroger, 2000)<\/p>\n Are Beliefs about God Theoretical Beliefs? Reflections on Aquinas and Kant<\/a> (John O\u2019Leary-Hawthorne & Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1996)<\/p>\n Polanyi and Newman: A Reconsideration<\/a> (Martin X. Moleski, S. J.)<\/p>\n Personal Catholicism<\/a> (Martin X. Moleski, S. J., 1999)<\/p>\n An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent<\/em><\/a> (book by John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1870)<\/p>\n The Illative Sense<\/a> [ch. 9 of Grammar of Assent<\/em>] (John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1870)<\/p>\n Passionate Reason: Kierkegaard and Plantinga on Radical Conversion<\/a> (Richard Otte, 2014)<\/p>\n Kierkegaard and the Modern Religious Mind<\/a> (Paul Pardi, 2010)<\/p>\n Induction and Other Minds<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga,\u00a01966)<\/p>\n Induction and Other Minds, II\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga,\u00a01968)<\/p>\n Is Belief in God Properly Basic?<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga, 1981)<\/p>\n Intellectual Sophistication and Basic Belief in God<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga, 1986)<\/p>\n Swinburne and Plantinga on Internal Rationality<\/a> (Alvin Plantinga & Richard Swinburne, 2001)<\/p>\n Rationality and Public Evidence<\/a> (Alvin Plantinga, 2001)<\/p>\n On \u2018Proper Basicality\u2019<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga, 2008)<\/p>\n Theism, Atheism, and Rationality<\/a>\u00a0(Alvin Plantinga)<\/p>\n Science, Faith, and Society<\/em> <\/a>(book by Michael Polanyi, 1946)<\/p>\n The Stability of Beliefs <\/a>(Michael Polanyi, 1952)<\/p>\n Faith and Reason<\/a> (Michael Polanyi, 1961)<\/p>\n Tacit Knowing: Its Bearing on Some Problems of Philosophy<\/a> (Michael Polanyi, 1962)<\/p>\n The Structure of Tacit Knowing<\/a> (Michael Polanyi, 1964)<\/p>\n The Structure of Tacit Knowing<\/a>\u00a0(Michael Polanyi, 1965)<\/p>\n The Structure of Consciousness<\/a> (Michael Polanyi, 1965)<\/p>\n Transcendence and Self-Transcendence<\/a> (Michael Polanyi, 1970)<\/p>\n Christian Faith and Belief<\/a> (Alexander R. Pruss, 2001)<\/p>\n Michael Polanyi and Tacit Knowledge<\/a> (Mark K. Smith, 2003)<\/p>\n Tacit Knowledge<\/a> (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 3. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [see my long collection of links<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 4. DESIRE \/ LONGING ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n My \u201cRomantic \/ Imaginative\u201d Conversion to Christianity<\/a> (Dave Armstrong, 1997; rev. 2015)<\/p>\n C. S. Lewis and the Romantic Poets on Longing, Sehnsucht<\/em>, and Joy<\/a> (edited by Dave Armstrong, 2001)<\/p>\n The Relationship of Romanticism to Christianity and Catholicism in Particular<\/a> (edited by Dave Armstrong, 2001)<\/p>\n Myth-as-Truth, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Conversion of C. S. Lewis<\/a> (edited by Dave Armstrong, 2004)<\/p>\n Argument for God from Desire: Atheist-Christian Dialogue<\/a>\u00a0(Dave Armstrong) [8-7-17]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Argument from Desire <\/a>(Peter Kreeft, 1994)<\/p>\n The Bayesian Argument from Desire<\/a> (Victor Reppert, 2009)<\/p>\n The ontological argument from desire <\/a>(Alexander R. Pruss, 2010)<\/p>\n [see also my Romantic & Imaginative Theology: Inklings of the World Beyond<\/a> web page for more related materials]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 5. EXPERIENTIAL ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWilliam P. Alston\u201d in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers<\/em><\/a> (Daniel Howard-Snyder)<\/p>\n Review of Keith E. Yandell, The Epistemology of Religious Experience<\/em><\/a> (Daniel Howard-Snyder, 1997)<\/p>\n A Religious Experience Argument for the Existence of a Holy Transcendent Being\u00a0<\/a>(Alexander R. Pruss, 2001)<\/p>\n Willam P. Alston \u2013 Religious Experience as Perception of God<\/a> (John Piippo, 2017)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6. HISTORICAL ARGUMENT <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [includes: Jesus Christ, Miracles, Prophecy, and the Revelation of Inspired Scripture]<\/p>\n [collected in a separate paper<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 7. LOGIC AND REASON ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [defunct links: need to find more articles]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 8. MATHEMATICS ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n God and the \u2018Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics\u2019<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2013)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 9. MIND ARGUMENT\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [defunct links: need to find more articles]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 10. MORAL ARGUMENT\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Theistic Foundations of Morality<\/a> (David Baggett & Jerry L. Walls, 2011)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Can We Be Good without God?<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 1992)<\/p>\n The Indispensability of Theological Meta-Ethical Foundations for Morality<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 1997)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Debate: Is the Foundation of Morality Natural or Supernatural?<\/a> (William Lane Craig vs. Sam Harris, April 2011)<\/p>\n Sam Harris on Objective Moral Values and Duties <\/a>(William Lane Craig, 2011)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Navigating Sam Harris\u2019 The Moral Landscape <\/em><\/a>(William Lane Craig, 2012)<\/p>\n Can God Ground Necessary Moral Truths?<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2012)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Moral Argument for God<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2013)<\/p>\n \u201cObjective\u201d or \u201cAbsolute\u201d Moral Values?<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2013)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Moral Arguments for the Existence of God <\/a>(C. Stephen Evans, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em>, 2014)<\/p>\n Does morality depend on God?<\/a> (Edward Feser, 2011)<\/p>\n Do We Need God to be Moral?<\/a> (John Frame vs. Paul Kurtz, 1996)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Argument from Conscience<\/a> (Peter Kreeft, 1988)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 11. ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [see my long collection of links<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 12. PRAGMATIC ARGUMENTS AND THE APOLOGETICS OF BLAISE PASCAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Apologetic Methodology of Blaise Pascal <\/a>(Phil Fernandes, 2004)<\/p>\n Deposed Royalty: Pascal\u2019s Anthropological Argument<\/a> (Douglas Groothuis, 1998)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Argument from Pascal\u2019s Wager<\/a> (Peter Kreeft, 1988)<\/p>\n Pascal: The First Modern Christian<\/a> (Edward T. Oakes, 1999)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 13. PRAYER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [defunct links: need to find more articles]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 14. TELEOLOGICAL (DESIGN) ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [see my long collection of links<\/a>]<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 15. TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Four Arguments for Transcendence <\/a>(Peter Kreeft, 2008)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n CUMULATIVE \/ MULTIPLE ARGUMENTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Introduction: The Resurrection of Theism <\/a>(William Lane Craig, 1991)<\/p>\n \u201cSobel\u2019s Acid Bath for Theism.\u201d Review Article: Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God<\/em>, by Jordan Howard Sobel<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2004)<\/p>\n Arguing Successfully about God: A Review Essay of Graham Oppy\u2019s Arguing about Gods<\/em><\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2008)<\/p>\n God Is Not Dead Yet<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2008)<\/p>\n Theist Arguments<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2009)<\/p>\n The New Atheism and Five Arguments for God<\/a> (William Lane Craig, 2010)<\/p>\n Religious Epistemology<\/a> (Trent Dougherty & Chris Tweedt, 2015)<\/p>\n Classical Theism Roundup<\/a> (Edward Feser, 2012)<\/p>\n Is Natural Theology Theologically Taboo?<\/a> (Douglas Groothuis, 1995)<\/p>\n Arguments for the Existence of God<\/a> (A. J. Hoober, c. 1982)<\/p>\n 20 Arguments for the Existence of God<\/a> (Peter Kreeft, 1994)<\/p>\n Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments<\/a> (Alvin Plantinga)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n QUALITIES \/ CHARACTERISTICS OF GOD (CLASSICAL ORTHODOX THEISM)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ATEMPORALITY \/ OUTSIDE OF TIME<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n