Plantinga on the Problem of Evil No-one has contributed more than Alvin Plantinga to the development of an analytical tradition in the philosophy of religion, and his studies of the problem of evil are among his most important contributions to the field. I believe that... RM Adams - Springer...
In this dissertation, I attempt to show how Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga addresses a major stumbling block to Christian faith, the problem of evil, and how his approach could provide a foundation for his idea of "warranted" Christianity. I wish to do the following. One, to show how...
Alvin Plantinga, “A Christian Life Partly Lived,” inPhilosophers Who Believe, ed. Kelly James Clark (InterVarsity Press, 1993): Our first responsibility [as Christian philosophers] is to the Lord and to the Christian community, not first of all to the philosophical community at large — alth...
First, the logical incompatibility version of the argument from evil is not one of the crucial versions, and Plantinga, in fostering the illusion that it is, seriously misrepresents claims advanced by other philosophers. Secondly, Plantinga's arguments against the thesis that the existence of any ...
Evil and the God of narrative: Four types of contemporary Christian theodicy (Alvin Plantinga, James Cone, Dorothy Soelle, David Griffin, John Hick).Since the middle of the twentieth century, there has been a proliferation of western Christian academic treatments of the problem of evil. With ...
I examine three of Plantinga's primary strategies in arguing for PT: His work on the ontological argument, the problem of evil, and "Reformed epistemology"--the claim that theistic belief can be justified without propositional evidence.;Central to my criticism is my identification of a ...