Alvin Plantinga
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- Alvin Plantinga
- challenged the view that natural theology provides sound reason to believe but revealed does not
- says it is the other way round - revealed theology justifies Christian belief but natural theology can never provide sufficient reason
- certainly not knowledge of God's love and grace
- says it is the other way round - revealed theology justifies Christian belief but natural theology can never provide sufficient reason
- Basic Knowledge
- a belief which is held to be true because it just is so and so it makes sense of many other experiences
- other claims are made based on this fundamental knowledge
- it is unlikely that there can ever be a totally convincing foundation of knowledge, but it is possible to have a broad agreement of what can be reasonably considered to be true
- Plantinga refers to this as a 'warrant'
- certain Christian revealed truths are basic
- a belief which is held to be true because it just is so and so it makes sense of many other experiences
- Sensus Divinitatis
- there is no independent natural theology for knowledge of God, but there is a general religious sense which makes it reasonable to make religious claims
- not the product of reason through philosophical arguments or the evidence of science
- rejects natural theology but sensus divinitatis is a God given faculty for humans to be able to know God
- basic knowledge is only available to Christians because only Christ can remove sin, which corrupts the sensus divinitatis
- Basic Knowledge
- a belief which is held to be true because it just is so and so it makes sense of many other experiences
- other claims are made based on this fundamental knowledge
- it is unlikely that there can ever be a totally convincing foundation of knowledge, but it is possible to have a broad agreement of what can be reasonably considered to be true
- Plantinga refers to this as a 'warrant'
- certain Christian revealed truths are basic
- a belief which is held to be true because it just is so and so it makes sense of many other experiences
- the Holy Spirit helps believers to respond to the defects
- Basic Knowledge
- Responding to the Atheological Objector
- someone who rejects all religious claims
- religious claims merely lack evidence
- religious belief is irrational
- someone who rejects all religious claims
- religious belief is irrational
- Plantinga responds saying that though there is no incorrigible proof of belief, but there can be good reasons to maintain it
- there is no one totally convincing argument which proves, or at least provides a strong probability that God doesn't exist
- belief in God's existence is no less rational than an atheist's non-belief in God
- Criticisms
- bandwagon fallacy - just because religious belief is popular throughout time, does not make it true
- all of those people could be mistaken
- gives no explanation for why Christian beliefs are true - no warrant for belief
- the basic beliefs could be Christian, non-Christian or atheist. They could even be the tooth fairy
- it doesn't make them true
- bandwagon fallacy - just because religious belief is popular throughout time, does not make it true
- challenged the view that natural theology provides sound reason to believe but revealed does not
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