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4 days ago · Where the Conflict Really Lies: science, religion, and naturalism, by Alvin Plantinga (2012)
2 days ago · We can also restate my argument to approximate the form that John Mackie should have used to succeed in his famous exchange with Alvin Plantinga, as follows: There is an all-good, all-powerful God. (This is assumed for the sake of argument by both Mackie and Plantinga.)
5 days ago · I wasn’t part of the CRC when Borgdorff’s father, Peter Borgdorff, was executive director or in the years when Plantinga was teaching at Calvin. I joined 13 years ago, drawn by Christian education, the covenant family, and the warmth of a local congregation—a congregation with whom I haven’t been worshiping for two and a half years that is now among those under discipline for expressing a view that contradicts synod’s decision on unchastity.
4 days ago · Some religious thinkers, such as the philosopher Alvin Plantinga have claimed that God has indeed implanted within each of us a sensus divinitatis, an innate awareness of God's existence. Why, then, are there atheists?
5 days ago · In the 20th century several Christian philosophers (notably Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm, and Alvin Plantinga) asserted the validity of a second form of Anselm’s argument. This hinges upon “ necessary existence,” a property with even higher value than “existence.”
Many great philosophers throughout history where Christians from St. Thomas Aquinas to Alvin Plantinga. The ideal of Christianity being Anti-intellectual has permeated our society. Christians seem to love tradition except there philosophic tradition. What's a Sermon but the philosophy of the Preacher or the philosophy of a theologian?
3 days ago · Michael's done a lot of reading, though his heroes - St Augustine, Alvin Plantinga, C S Lewis, Miroslav Volf et. al. - tend to be theologically conservative. He affirms 'the great teachings of the Reformation - justification by faith alone, the sole authority of Scripture, and the priesthood of all believers' (p. 80).
