Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God

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Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff
University of Notre Dame Press, 1983 - Faith and reason - 321 pages

Arguments about the "evidences of Christianity" have consumed the talents of believers and agnostics. These arguments have tried to give--or to deny--Christian belief a "foundation." Belief is rational, the argument goes, only if it is logically derived from axiomatic truths or is otherwise supported by "enough evidence."

Arguments for belief generally fail to sway the unconvinced. But is this because the evidence is flimsy and the arguments weak--or because they attempt to give the right answer to the wrong question? What, after all, would satisfy Russell's all for evidence?

Faith and Rationality investigates the rich implications of what the authors call "Calvinistic" or "Reformed epistemology." This is the view of knowledge-enunciated by Calvin, further developed by Barth-that sees belief in God as its own foundation; in the authors' terms, is it properly "basic" in itself.

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Contents

Introduction Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Reason and Belief in God Alvin Plantinga
16
The Stranger George I Mavrodes
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Abraham Kuyper adequate reason Alvin Plantinga Aquinas argument assertion assumptions atheism Barth basis belief dispositions Bultmann certainty Charles Hodge Christ Christian Christian faith claim classical foundationalism common-sense concept consider conviction course criterion deliverances of reason demonstration empty tomb epistemic practice epistemology essays evangelical event evidence evidentialist example existence of God experience facie fact faith and reason fideism foundationalist God's existence Hodge hold human Ibid irrational kerygma knowledge Kuyper logical matter means mind moral natural theology Nicholas Wolterstorff nonetheless normative objection objector one's Pannenberg argues perception perhaps person philosophers Plantinga position premises principle properly basic propositions question rational noetic structure rationally justified reality reason to cease Reformed Reid reliable religion religious resurrection of Jesus revelation scientific Scripture seems self-evident sense someone sort suppose theist theistic belief theologian things thought tion tradition true trust unbelief universal unreliable W. K. Clifford Wolterstorff

About the author (1983)

Alvin Plantinga is John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy and former director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of several books, including Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism.

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Emeritus Professor of Philosophical Theology in the Divinity School at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Justice: Rights and Wrongs and Justice in Love.

Bibliographic information

TitleFaith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God
EditorsAlvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff
Edition2, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press, 1983
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJul 18, 2011
ISBN0268009651, 9780268009656
Length321 pages
  
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