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Warranted Christian Belief [e-book]
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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. - Publisher.
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Warranted Christian Belief [e-book]
2000, Oxford University Press
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0585352674 9780585352671
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Table of Contents
Part I : Is there a question?
1. Kant
I. The problem
II. Kant
A. Two worlds or one?
B. Arguments or reasons?
2. Kaufman and Hick
I. Kaufman
A. The real referent and the available referent
B. The function of religious language
II. Hick
A. The real
B. Coherent?
C. Religiously relevant?
D. Is there such a thing?
Part II : What is the question?
3. Justification and the classical picture
I. John Locke
A. Living by reason
B. Revelation
II. Classical evidentialism, deontologism, and foundationalism
A. Classical foundationalism
B. Classical deontologism
III. Back to the present
IV. Problems with the classical picture
A. Self-referential problems
B. Most of our beliefs unjustified?
V. Christian belief justified
VI. Analogical variations
A. Variations on classical foundationalism
B. Variations on the deontology
C. Is this the de jure question?
4. Rationality
I. Some assorted versions of rationality
A. Aristotelian rationality
B. Rationality as proper function
C. The deliverances of reason
D. Means-end rationality
II. Alstonian practical rationality
A. The initial question
B. Doxastic practices
C. Epistemic circularity
D. The argument for practical rationality
E. Practical rationality initially characterized
F. The original position
G. the wide original position
H. A narrow original position?
5. Warrant and the Freud-and-Marx complaint
I. The F & M complaint
A. Freud
B. Marx
C. Others
D. How shall we understand the F & M complaint?
II. Warrant : the sober truth
III. The F & M complaint again
Part III : Warranted Christian belief.
6. Warranted belief in God
I. The Aquinas/Calvin model
A. Models
B. Presentation of the model
II. Is belief in God warrant-basic?
A. If false, probably not
B. If true, probably so
III. The de jure question is not independent of the de facto question
IV. The F & M complaint revisited
7. Sin and its cognitive consequences
I. Preliminaries
II. Initial statement of the extended model
III. The nature of sin
IV. The noetic effects of sin
A. The basic consequence
B. Sin and knowledge
8. The extended Aquinas/Calvin model : revealed to our minds
I. Faith
II. How does faith work?
III. Faith and positive epistemic status
IV. Proper basicality and the role of scripture
V. Comparison with Locke
VI. Why necessary?
VII. Cognitive renewal
9. The testimonial model : sealed upon our hearts
I. Belief and affection
II. Jonathan Edwards
A. Intellect and will : which is prior?
B. The affirmations of faith
III. Analogue of warrant
IV. Eros
10. Objections
I. Warrant and the argument from religious experience
II. What can experience show?
III. A killer argument?
IV. Son of Great Pumpkin?
V. Circularity?
Part IV : Defeaters?
11. Defeaters and defeat
I. Nature of defeaters
II. Defeaters for Christian or theistic belief
III. Projective theories a defeater for Christian belief?
12. Two (or more) kinds of scripture scholarship
I. Scripture divinely inspired
II. Traditional Christian biblical commentary
III. Historical biblical criticism
A. Varieties of historical biblical criticism
B. Tensions with traditional Christianity
IV. Why aren't most Christians more concerned?
A. Force majeure
B. A moral imperative?
C. Historical biblical criticism more inclusive?
V. Nothing to be concerned about
A. Troeltschian historical biblical criticism again
B. Non-Troeltschian historical biblical criticism
C. Conditionalization
VI. Concluding coda
13. Postmodernism and pluralism
I. Postmodernism
A. Is postmodernism inconsistent with Christian belief?
B. Do these claims defeat Christian belief?
C. Postmodernism a failure of nerve
II. Pluralism
A. A probabilistic defeater?
B. The charge of moral arbitrariness
14. Suffering and evil
I. Evidential atheological arguments
A. Rowe's arguments
B. Draper's argument
II. Nonargumentative defeaters?
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