Religious Fictionalism: Can you be a believer who doesn’t believe? Kristi Mair and Philip Goff

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Philip Goff attends church even though he doesn’t believe in the doctrines of Christianity. He calls himself a ‘religious fictionalist’, believing that the practise of faith is more important than believing in supernatural claims. Kristi Mair, author of the new book ‘More Truth: Searching for Certainty in an Uncertain World’ (IVP) and a speaker at this year’s Unbelievable? conference, engages with Philip’s approach to faith and whether you can really be a believer who doesn’t believe. For Unbelievable? the Conference 2019: http://www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievableconference For Bret Weinstein and Alister McGrath live in London: https://shop.premier.org.uk/collections/events/products/religion-useful-fiction-or-ultimate-truth-live-debate For Philip Goff’s article on Religious Fictionalism: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/believers-without-belief-religious-fictionalism/ For ‘More Truth’ by Kristi Mair: https://ivpbooks.com/more-truth Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Unbelievable-the-Book For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Well, hello and welcome along to the show that aims to get you thinking every Saturday afternoon,
0:10.9	here on Premier Christian Radio.
0:12.8	Unbelievable, with me Justin Briley and Brawlcasting around the world as a podcast too.
0:17.6	And nice to be back to our usual format today to guess joining me in studio, I'm going
0:21.9	to introduce the subject very shortly because we've had a number of different kind of shows
0:26.0	over the last few weeks last week, a podcast special where I brought you some interesting
0:30.0	projects from unbelievable listeners.
0:31.7	And the two before that were actually recordings of live events taken in the States.
0:36.8	But back to the usual format for today's show, but you can join me for our unbelievable
0:42.2	live event this very week, this coming week Wednesday, the 8th of May.
0:46.8	It's the big conversation with Brett Weinstein and Alistair McGrath debating religion,
0:51.1	useful fiction or ultimate truth.
0:53.8	And this is a live audience thing and tickets are, well, they're nearly gone, but you can
0:58.4	just about get some if you get in there now.
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1:12.2	often do live audience recordings of unbelievable, but you can be there for the one we're doing
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