Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in GodAlvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff 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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... Kuyper's thought from the evidentialist , or Common - Sense , theo- logical tradition in America . Whereas in the views of the Common - Sense apologists sin was a factor that could prevent one from taking an objective look at the ...
... Kuyper , regenerate and unregenerate . Unregenerate do not at all clearly know the Creator . Hence there are two kinds of science . Not that everything that Christians and non - Christians know is different . " There is a very broad ...
... Kuyper's view seems to have the troubling problem that further appeals to the Holy Spirit will not well settle a dispute over what is truly the voice of the Holy Spirit . Kuyper , in traditional Calvinist fashion , stresses that the ...
Contents
Introduction Nicholas Wolterstorff | 1 |
Reason and Belief in God Alvin Plantinga | 16 |
The Stranger George I Mavrodes | 94 |
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