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The logic of hope: a defence of the hopeful

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2017

EINAR DUENGER BOHN
EINAR DUENGER BOHN*
Affiliation:
University of Agder, Department of Religion, Philosophy and History, Postbox 422, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway
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e-mail: einar.d.bohn@uia.no
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Abstract

This article explicates and defends the attitude of hope as a distinctive religious attitude that cuts across the standard trichotomy of atheism, agnosticism and theism.

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Religious Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 107 - 116
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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