Warranted Christian Belief

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195131925

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Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Describes the notion of warrant as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. This volume examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in doing so.

Author : Dieter Schönecker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110430226

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Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief' by Dieter Schönecker Pdf

Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a mathematician deal critically with several aspects of Plantinga’s seminal work. In a long essay, Plantinga answers to these critics.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802872043

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Knowledge and Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199879595

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Warrant by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This present volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the way for his own positive proposal in Warrant and Proper Function. This first volume serves as a good introduction to the central issues in contemporary epistemology.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198030249

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Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in doing so. He contends that Christian beliefs are warranted to the extent that they are formed by properly functioning cognitive faculties, thus, insofar as they are warranted, Christian beliefs are knowledge if they are true.

Author : James K. Beilby
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0754638324

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Epistemology as Theology by James K. Beilby Pdf

Locating Plantinga's most recent work in the context of his theological assumptions, his previous work on religious epistemology, and the current debate over how knowledge should be characterized, Beilby's book offers a unique perspective on Plantinga's religious epistemology.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 9780195078633

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Warrant and Proper Function by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

The author argues that what is crucial to turning true belief into knowledge is the 'proper functioning' of one's cognitive faculties, and this clears the way for the proposal that a belief is warranted whenever it is the product of properly functioning cognitive processes.

Author : Kevin Diller
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830896998

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Theology's Epistemological Dilemma by Kevin Diller Pdf

The problem of faith and reason is as old as Christianity itself. Today's philosophical, scientific and historical challenges make the epistemic problem inescapable for believers. Can faith justify its claims? Does faith give us confidence in the truth? Is believing with certainty a virtue or a vice? In Theology?s Epistemological Dilemma, Kevin Diller addresses this problem by drawing on two of the most significant responses in recent Christian thought: Karl Barth's theology of revelation and Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of Christian belief. This will strike many as unlikely, given the common stereotypes of both thinkers. Contrary to widespread misunderstanding, Diller offers a reading of both as complementary to each other: Barth provides what Plantinga lacks in theological depth, while Plantinga provides what Barth lacks in philosophical clarity. Diller presents a unified Barth/Plantinga proposal for theological epistemology capable of responding without anxiety to the questions that face believers today.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190282936

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Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to all of these questions and many others. This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.

Author : Matthew A. Benton,John P. Hawthorne,Dani Rabinowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198798705

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Knowledge, Belief, and God by Matthew A. Benton,John P. Hawthorne,Dani Rabinowitz Pdf

Epistemology has flourished in this millennium, with new ideas and approaches of many kinds: Knowledge, Belief, and God shows how these developments can illuminate the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. And philosophy of religion is shown to be a valuable testing-ground for epistemology.--

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199812103

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Where the Conflict Really Lies by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.

Author : John M. DePoe,Tyler Dalton McNabb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350062764

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Debating Christian Religious Epistemology by John M. DePoe,Tyler Dalton McNabb Pdf

What does it mean to believe in God? What passes as evidence for belief in God? What issues arise when considering the rationality of belief in God? Debating Christian Religious Epistemology introduces core questions in the philosophy of religion by bringing five competing viewpoints on the knowledge of God into critical dialogue with one another. Each chapter introduces an epistemic viewpoint, providing an overview of its main arguments and explaining why it justifies belief. The validity of that viewpoint is then explored and tested in a critical response from an expert in an opposing tradition. Featuring a wide range of different philosophical positions, traditions and methods, this introduction: - Covers classical evidentialism, phenomenal conservatism, proper functionalism, covenantal epistemology and traditions-based perspectivalism - Draws on MacIntyre's account of rationality and ideas from the Analytic and Conservatism traditions - Addresses issues in social epistemology - Considers the role of religious experience and religious texts Packed with lively debates, this is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in understanding the major positions in contemporary religious epistemology and how religious concepts and practices relate to belief and knowledge.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : God
ISBN : 0801497353

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God and Other Minds by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

Author : Alva William Steffler
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802846769

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Symbols of the Christian Faith by Alva William Steffler Pdf

Symbols of the Christian Faith is an illustrated guide to the major visual symbols used by the Christian church throughout history. These stylized illustrations, designed by artist Alva William Steffler, are intended to provide usable, up-to-date resources for contemporary church worship and Christian education. Throughout church history symbols have been used to aid worship and to communicate difficult spiritual ideas. Steffler here collects these symbols, from early Christian catacomb art to the present, offering fresh graphic interpretations of old visual forms. The accompanying text notes the biblical sources for the various symbols and traces their use in church tradition and their links to Greco-Roman culture. Extensive glossaries and indexes round out the book. Broadly inclusive and sensitive to the perspectives of every church tradition, this volume will be an invaluable resource for churches using Christian art as well as for general readers curious about the meaning of common Christian symbols.

Author : Alvin Plantinga,Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015027239071

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Faith and Rationality by Alvin Plantinga,Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.