Religion and Impossibility

Religious belief makes significant demands of the believer. Religious doctrines encompass claims that are extraordinary, miraculous, and perhaps even impossible. At the same time, some believers hold that some deeply held convictions, including about morality or freedom, can only be accounted for by the truth of religion. A feature of religion, perhaps, is that it offers to make the impossible possible. In this session, several philosophers look at different aspects of the relationship between theology, the miraculous, logic and the impossible.