Synopses & Reviews
This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga's trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga 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. He contends that Christian beliefs are warranted to the extent that they are formed by properly functioning cognitive faculties, thus, insofar as they are warranted, Christian beliefs are knowledge if they are true.
Review
"Warranted Christian Belief belongs on every Christian scholar's shelf"--SCJ 5
"[A] fine book; it has more virtues than a brief review can enumerate ... WCB adroitly extends Plantinga's project of developing a distinctly Christian philosophy, and in particular an epistemology of Christian belief."--Trinity Journal
About the Author
Alvin Plantinga is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I Is There a Question?
1 Kant
2 Kaufman and Hick
Part II What Is the Question?
3 Justification and the Classical Picture
4 Rationality
5 Warrant and the Freud-and-Marx Complaint
Part III Warranted Christian Belief
6 Warranted Belief in God
7 Sin and Its Cognitive Consequences
8 The Extended Aquinas/Calvin Model: Revealed to Our Minds
9 The Testimonial Model: Sealed Upon Our Hearts
10 Objections
Part IV Defeaters?
11 Defeaters and Defeat
12 Two (Or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship
13 Postmodernism and Pluralism
14 Suffering and Evil
Index