Is Belief in God Rational? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 15th, 2024, at University of Georgia.

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About the Speaker:

Dr. Trabbic is an associate professor of philosophy at Ave Maria University in Florida where he has taught since 2006. His areas of interest include metaphysics, moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, the relationship between religion and politics, Aquinas, Heidegger, and postmodern philosophy. He has published articles on these topics in various academic and popular journals.

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1:00.9	So is belief in God rational?
1:05.0	Being able to answer this question naturally depends on our being able to answer three prior questions.
1:13.6	They are the following.
1:15.6	What is belief?
1:18.6	What makes belief rational?
1:22.6	And what is God?
1:26.6	So most of the talk
1:29.2	will be an attempt to answer those three questions
1:31.8	and then after I've answered those,
1:34.8	then I'm going to get to the question
1:37.1	whether belief in God is rationed.
1:41.0	So, question one.
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