Document Type
Article - post-print
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain.
Original Publication Citation
Baehr, J. (2020). Flannery O’Connor and religious epistemology. Religious Studies, 56(3), 349–369. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412518000562
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Baehr, Jason, "Flannery O’Connor and Religious Epistemology" (2018). Philosophy Faculty Works. 163.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phil_fac/163
