A study of Reformed Epistemology
Labels: Plantinga
posted by Victor Reppert @ 7:29 PM
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I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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At March 13, 2009 8:45 AM ,
Ilíon said...
Plantinga is correct as far as he goes, and perhaps I should say to the extent that I understand him -- the Christian has no obligation, neither morally nor rationally, to get permission from the anti-Christian to believe that the transcendant Creator-God exists and that God raised Jesus from the dead as validation of his claim to be God-with-us.
That is, after all, what 'atheology' boils down to: the assertion by certain pretend-atheists that we Christians don't have the right to be Christians unless *they* approve of the reasons we may state for why we believe.
On the other hand, when the Christian seeks to convert the non-Christian to the saving faith in Christ, he has a moral and rational obligation to present a case as to *why* the non-Christain should believe, rather than merely assert that "thus-and-such is the truth."
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