Faith and Rationality: Reason and Belief in God

✍ Scribed by Alvin Plantinga (editor), Nicholas Wolterstorff (editor)

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Faith and Rationality
Contents
Introduction
Notes
Reason and Belief in God
Part I– The Evidentialist Objection to Belief in God
A– How Shall We Construe "Theistic Belief"?
B– Objections to Theistic Belief
C– The Evidentialist Objection Stated
1– A. Flew: The Presumption of Atheism
2– M. Scriven: Atheism Is Obligatory in the Absence of Evidence
3– The Evidentialist Objection and Intellectual Obligation
4– Can I Have Intellectual Obligations If My Beliefs Are Not within My Control?
Part II– Aquinas and Foundationalism
A– Aquinas and Evidentialism
1– Aquinas on Knowledge
2– Aquinas on Knowledge of God
B– Foundationalism
C– Conditions On Proper Basicality
D– The Collapse of Foundationalism
Part III– The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology
A– The Objection Initially Stated
B– The Barthian Dilemma
C– Rejecting Classical Foundationalism
Part IV– Is Belief in God Properly Basic?
A– The Great Pumpkin Objection
B– The Ground of Belief in God
C– Is Argument Irrelevant to Basic Belief in God?
D– Fideism
Notes
The Stranger
Christian Experience and Christian Belief
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Notes
Can Belief in God Be Rational If It Has No Foundations?
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Appendix
Notes
Turning
Jerusalem and Athens Revisited
A Permission to Believe
Rationality vs. Reasons
Permissions and Reasons
Positive and Negative Apologetics
Reason and Rationalization
Belief and Unbelief
Alternative Projects
A Reason for Believing
Rational Ambitions
Rationality and Ruth
Reasons and Beliefs
The Strength of Belief
Summary
Notes
The Collapse of American Evangelical Academia*
The Background: Thomas Reid
The Background: Paley and Butler
Christian and Non-Christian Science
The Evidences of Christianity
Faith and Reason
The Hidden Assumptions
The Claims and Limits of Science
Two Kinds of People and Two Kinds of Science
Notes
Faith, Reason, and the Resurrection: In the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg
Pannenberg's Context: Dialectical Theology
Pannenberg's Ultimate Fear: The Charge of Subjectivism
Pannenberg and the Enlightenment
Revelation, Faith, and Historical Criticism
A Definition of Reason
Faith, Reason, and the Holy Spirit
The Resurrection: The Critical Test of Pannenberg's Rational Theology
A Critical Evaluation
Notes
Index
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