The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader

by PLANTINGA ALVIN

• ISBN13: 9780802842299
• ISBN10: 0802842291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Alvin Plantinga, called by Time magazine "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God, " has had a profound impact on the philosophical discipline. This book gathers in one place Plantinga's most important work in the philosophy of religion generally and his contribution to the resurgence in Christian philosophy in particular. Organized into four sections -- "Natural Theology and Atheology, " "Reformed Epistemology, " "Divine Nature and Attributes, " and "Christian Philosophy" -- these thirteen essays and book excerpts reflect the areas of thought in which Plantinga has been most influential. The volume also includes an afterword by Plantinga and instructions for accessing his work on the World Wide Web.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii	(2)
Alvin Plantinga: A Short Chronology	ix	(2)
Introduction: The Analytic Theist: An Appreciation	xi
James F. Sennett
I NATURAL THEOLOGY AND ATHEOLOGY	1	(96)
1. God and Analogy	4	(18)
2. The Free Will Defense	22	(28)
3. The Ontological Argument	50	(22)
4. Is Naturalism Irrational?	72	(25)
II REFORMED EPISTEMOLOGY	97	(114)
5. Reason and Belief in God	102	(60)
6. Justification and Theism	162	(25)
7. A Defense of Religious Exclusivism	187	(24)
III DIVINE NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES	211	(82)
8. Necessary Being	214	(11)
9. Does God Have a Nature?	225	(33)
10. On Ockham's Way Out	258	(35)
IV CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY	293	(60)
11. Advice to Christian Philosophers	296	(20)
12. Sheehan's Shenanigans: How Theology Becomes Tomfoolery	316	(12)
13. Christian Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century	328	(25)
Afterword	353	(6)
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga: A Bibliography	359	(9)
Reprint Permission Acknowledgments	368