Kyle Harrison
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Warranted Christian Belief

Alvin Plantinga 2000 View original ↗

TL;DR — Plantinga’s argument that Christian belief can be rational without evidential argument — the third Warrant volume.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library edition. “This book is about the intellectual or rational acceptability of Christian belief.”

The third volume of Plantinga’s Warrant trilogy and the one that applies the machinery. His claim is that Christian belief can be properly basic — warranted without being inferred from other beliefs — if it is produced by a cognitive faculty functioning as designed. The de jure objection (that belief is irrational regardless of whether it is true) is shown to depend on the de facto question.

Among the most important works of analytic philosophy of religion in the twentieth century, and the standard reference for reformed epistemology. Pairs with Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence.

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