Matthew Bagger is assistant professor of religious studies at Brown University. He has taught at Dartmouth College and Columbia University and is the author of Religious Experience, Justification, and History.

A major new voice in the philosophy of religion, thoroughly conversant with recent Anglo-American philosophy, but going his own way methodologically. -- Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College Refreshing and persuasive... Clearly written, well-argued... Recommended. CHOICE A thought-provoking reading of religious paradoxes. -- Forrest Clingerman Religious Studies Review It is worth reading for Bagger's original perspective on some of the religious uses of paradox. -- Abigail Turner Lauck Wernicki Journal of Consciousness Studies

• Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Paradox Without Piety 2. Credo Quia Absurdum: Cognitive Asceticism and Kierkegaard 3. Mystics and Ascetics 4. Absolute Transcendence 5. Skepticism and Mysticism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Matthew Bagger is assistant professor of religious studies at Brown University. He has taught at Dartmouth College and Columbia University and is the author of Religious Experience, Justification, and History.

A major new voice in the philosophy of religion, thoroughly conversant with recent Anglo-American philosophy, but going his own way methodologically. -- Nancy Frankenberry, Dartmouth College Refreshing and persuasive... Clearly written, well-argued... Recommended. CHOICE A thought-provoking reading of religious paradoxes. -- Forrest Clingerman Religious Studies Review It is worth reading for Bagger's original perspective on some of the religious uses of paradox. -- Abigail Turner Lauck Wernicki Journal of Consciousness Studies

• Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Paradox Without Piety 2. Credo Quia Absurdum: Cognitive Asceticism and Kierkegaard 3. Mystics and Ascetics 4. Absolute Transcendence 5. Skepticism and Mysticism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index