Locke on Reason, Revelation, and Miracles

In Jessica Gordon-Roth & Shelley Weinberg, The Lockean Mind. New York, NY: Routledge (2021)
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The aim of this chapter is to explain why Locke thinks religious belief requires evidence and, on his view, what evidence there is for religious belief. I will explain and defend Locke’s view that revelation can provide evidence for religious beliefs so long as there is evidence that God revealed it. Further, I will show how he takes the historical evidence of the miracles of Jesus as justification for belief in Christianity.

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