Describe one advantage or disadvantage you can see for holist epistemology in the church life and explain why? One disadvantage I can see for holist epistemology in the church life is the evidential value of religious experience. A common objection to the claim that religious experience; provides evidence for the truth of religious beliefs is that religious experience is essentially private and subjective.
It is contrasted with data for science, which are public and replicable and is in a sense, objective. Alasdair Macintyre, in a 1955 article titled “Visions” argues from a religious experience standpoint to the claim God is circular since one needs to have the knowledge beforehand that God exists, as well as knowledge of how God communicates.
Some authors have pointed out the religious experience is nearly always interpreted in terms of categories of the religion it takes to confirm or to put this point more accurately; religious belief experiences are experienced as manifestations of phenomena appropriate to the believer’s religious belief. Therefore, there is no pure, objective religious experience before its interpretation in terms of the adherent’s predetermined categories.
Ref Site:
Anglo-American Post modernity: Philosophical Perspective on Science, Religion, and Ethics. Book by Nancey C. Murphy; Westview Press, 1997.