Warranted Christian belief
By: Alvin Plantinga.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
Subjects: Apologetics; Christianity -- Philosophy; Faith and reason -- Christianity
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: Is there a question?; label: Chapter 1
title: Kant
pagenum: 3; label: I
title: The Problem; label: II
title: Kant; label: A
title: Two Worlds or One?; label: B
title: Arguments or Reasons?; label: Chapter 2
title: Kaufman and Hick
pagenum: 31; label: I
title: Kaufman; label: A
title: The Real Referent and the Available Referent; label: B
title: The Function of Religious Language; label: II
title: Hick; label: A
title: The Real; label: B
title: Coherent?; label: C
title: Religiously Relevant?; label: D
title: Is There Such a Thing?; label: Part 2
title: What is the question?; label: Chapter 3
title: Justification and the Classical Picture
pagenum: 67; label: I
title: John Locke; label: A
title: Living by Reason; label: B
title: Revelation; label: II
title: Classical Evidentialism, Deontologism, and Foundationalism; label: A
title: Classical Foundationalism; label: B
title: Classical Deontologism; label: III
title: Back to the Present; label: IV
title: Problems with the Classical Picture; label: A
title: Self-Referential Problems; label: B
title: Most of Our Beliefs Unjustified?; label: V
title: Christian Belief Justified; label: VI
title: Analogical Variations; label: A
title: Variations on Classical Foudnationalism; label: B
title: Variations on the Deontology; label: C
title: Is This the de Jure Question?; label: Chapter 4
title: Rationality
pagenum: 108; label: I
title: Some Assorted Versions of Rationality; label: A
title: Aristotelian Rationality; label: B
title: Rationality as Proper Function; label: C
title: The Deliverances of Reason; label: D
title: Means-End Rationality; label: II
title: Alstonian Practical Rationality; label: A
title: The Initial Question; label: B
title: Doxastic Practices; label: C
title: Epistemic Circularity; label: D
title: The Argument for Practical Rationality; label: E
title: Practical Rationality Initially Characterized; label: F
title: The Original Position; label: G
title: The Wide Original Position; label: H
title: A Narrow Original Position?; label: Chapter 5
title: Warrant and the Freud-and-Marx Complaint
pagenum: 135; label: I
title: The F&M Complaint; label: A
title: Freud; label: B
title: Marx; label: C
title: Others; label: D
title: How Shall We Understand the F&M Complaint?; label: II
title: Warrant: The Sober Truth; label: III
title: The F&M Complaint Again; label: Part 3
title: Warranted Christian Belief; label: Chapter 6
title: Warranted Belief in God
pagenum: 167; label: I
title: The Aquinas/Calvin Model; label: A
title: Models; label: B
title: Presentation of the Model; label: II
title: Is Belief in God Warrant-Basic?; label: A
title: If False, Probabyl Not; label: B
title: If True, Probably So; label: III
title: The de Jure Question Is Not Independent of the de Facto Question; label: IV
title: The F&M Complaint Revisited; label: Chapter 7
title: Sin and Its Cognitive Consequences
pagenum: 199; label: I
title: Preliminaries; label: II
title: Initial Statement of the Extended Model; label: III
title: The Nature of Sin; label: IV
title: The Noetic Effects of Sin; label: A
title: The Basic Consequence; label: B
title: Sin and Knowledge; label: Chapter 8
title: The Extended Aquinas/Calvin Model: Revealed to Our Minds
pagenum: 241; label: I
title: Faith; label: II
title: How Does Faith Work?; label: III
title: Faith and Positive Epistemic Status; label: IV
title: Proper Basicality and the Role of Scripture; label: V
title: Comparison with Locke; label: VI
title: Why Necessary?; label: VII
title: Cognitive Renewal; label: Chapter 9
title: The Testimonial Model: Sealed Upon Our Hearts
pagenum: 290; label: I
title: Belief and Affection; label: II
title: Jonathan Edwards; label: A
title: Intellect and Will: Which is Prior?; label: B
title: The Affirmations of Faith; label: III
title: Analogue of Warrant; label: IV
title: Eros; label: Chapter 10
title: Obejctions
pagenum: 324; label: I
title: Warrant and the Argument from Religious Experience; label: II
title: What Can Experience Show?; label: III
title: A Killer Argument?; label: IV
title: Son of Great Pumpkin?; label: V
title: Circularity?; label: Part 4
title: Defeaters?; label: Chapter 11
title: Defeaters and Defeat
pagenum: 357; label: I
title: Nature of Defeaters; label: II
title: Defeaters for Christian or Theistic Belief; label: II
title: Projective Theories a Defeater for Christian Belief?; label: Chapter 12
title: Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship
pagenum: 374; label: I
title: Scripture Divinely Inspired; label: II
title: Traditional Christian Biblical Commentary; label: III
title: Historical Biblical Criticism; label: A
title: Varieties of Historical Biblical Criticism; label: B
title: Tensions with Traditional Christianity; label: IV
title: Why Aren't Most Christians More Concerned?; label: A
title: Force Majeure; label: B
title: A Moral Imperative?; label: C
title: Historical Biblical Criticism More Inclusive?; label: V
title: Nothing to be Concerned About; label: A
title: Troeltschian Historical Biblical Criticism Again; label: B
title: Non-Troeltschian Historical Biblical Criticism; label: C
title: Conditionalization; label: VI
title: Concluding Coda; label: Chapter 13
title: Postmodernism and Pluralism
pagenum: 422; label: I
title: Postmodernism; label: A
title: Is Postmodernism Inconsistent with Christian Belief?; label: B
title: Do These Claims Defeat Christian Belief?; label: C
title: Postmodernism a Failure of nerve; label: II
title: Pluralism; label: A
title: A Probabilistic Defeater?; label: B
title: The Charge of Moral Arbitrariness; label: Chapter 14
title: Suffering and Evil
pagenum: 458; label: I
title: Evidential Atheological Arguments; label: A
title: Rowe's Arguments; label: B
title: Draper's Argument; label: II
title: Nonargumentative Defeaters?; title: Index
pagenum: 500