Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2018
Brian Embry
Pages 132-141
On (Not) Believing That God Has Answered a Prayer
Scott Davison has raised an epistemic challenge to the doctrine of petitionary prayer. Roughly, the challenge is that we cannot know or have reason to believe that a prayer has been answered. Davison argues that the epistemic challenge undermines all the extant defenses of petitionary prayer. I argue that it does not.