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| | Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: William James |
 | | William James was the first child, born in 1842 (the year of the elder William’s death), and Henry, Jr. |
 | | James defines a genuine option to be one in which the hypothesis has some plausibility for the potential believer, there is no possibility of not choosing (i.e., the choice to withhold judgment is, in effect, the same as a rejection of the belief), and the stakes are high. |
 | | James treats the personal rather than institutional aspect of religion and defines it, for the purposes of his lecture, as “the feelings, act, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.” (James, 1984, p. |
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