Kai-man Kwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University.

The question of whether religious experience can be trusted has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of religion in recent years. Kwan surveys this contemporary philosophical debate, provides in-depth analysis of the crucial issues, and offer arguments for an affirmative answer to the above question.
Kwan first argues against traditional empiricist epistemologies and defends Swinburne's Principle of Credulity which holds that we should trust our experiences unless there are special considerations to the contrary. The Principle of Credulity is renamed the Principle of Critical Trust to highlight the need for balance between trust and criticism and is used as the foundation for a new approach to epistemology, the Critical Trust Approach (CTA), which maintains an emphasis on experience but attempts to break loose of the straitjacket of traditional empiricism by broadening the evidential base of experience. Kwan then widens his focus by looking at theistic experience in the contemporary multicultural context. 

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART A:  GOD, CRITICAL TRUST AND HOLISTIC EMPIRICISM
Chapter 1        Contemporary Resurgence of the Argument from Religious Experience 
Chapter 2        Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Rainbow of Experiences
Chapter 3        Towards Holistic Empiricism
Chapter 4        The Critical Trust Approach
Chapter 5        A Post-foundationalist Argument from Religious Experience
Chapter 6        Critique of Narrow Empiricism
Chapter 7       Arguments for the Principle of Critical Trust
Chapter 8        The Critical Trust Approach & Other Epistemologies
PART B: CRITICAL TRUST, THE RAINBOW OF EXPERIENCES & GOD
Chapter 9        Experience of the Natural World, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 10    Experience of Self, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 11    Existential Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 12    Interpersonal Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 13    Moral Experience, Critical Trust and God 
Chapter 14    Aesthetic Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 15    Intellectual Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 16    Religious Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 17    Theistic Experience, Critical Trust and God
Chapter 18    The Beauty of the Rainbow of Experiences and the Consilience of Theism
Chapter 19     Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index