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Warranted Christian belief / Alvin Plantinga.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Plantinga, Alvin.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Apologetics.
Christianity--Philosophy.
Christianity.
Faith and reason--Christianity.
Faith and reason.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (529 p.)
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Is There A Question?
Kant
The Problem
Two Worlds or One?
Arguments or Reasons?
Kaufman and Hick
Kaufman
The Real Referent and the Available Referent
The Function of Religious Language
Hick
The Real
Coherent?
Religiously Relevant?
Is There Such a Thing?
What is the Question?
Justification and the Classical Picture
John Locke
Living by Reason
Revelation
Classical Evidentialism, Deontologism, and Foundationalism
Classical Foundationalism
Classical Deontologism
Back to the Present
Problems with the Classical Picture
Self-Referential Problems
Most of Our Beliefs Unjustified?
Christian Belief Justified
Analogical Variations
Variations on Classical Foundationalism
Variations on the Deontology
Is This the de Jure Question?
Rationality
Some Assorted Versions of Rationality
Aristotelian Rationality
Rationality as Proper Function
The Deliverances of Reason
Means-End Rationality
Alstonian Practical Rationality
The Initial Question
Doxastic Practices
Epistemic Circularity
The Argument for Practical Rationality
Practical Rationality Initially Characterized
The Original Position
The Wide Original Position
A Narrow Original Position?
Warrant and the Freud-and-Marx Complaint
The FandM Complaint
Freud
Marx
Others
How Shall We Understand the FandM Complaint?
Warrant: The Sober Truth
The FandM Complaint Again
Warranted Christian Belief
Warranted Belief in God.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-988103-0
0-19-986748-8
1-280-47286-3
9786610472864
0-19-803024-X
0-585-35267-4
OCLC:
922953121

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