Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul B. Henry, Richard Devos, Lewis B. Smedes, William Spoelhof, Gaylen Byker, Frederick Manfred, Cornelius Plantinga. Excerpt: Alvin Carl Plantinga Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 1932) is an American Christian philosopher, currently the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame . He is known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, and Christian apologetics . He is particularly known for applying the methods of analytic philosophy to defend orthodox Christian beliefs. Notably, he has argued that some people can know that God exists as a basic belief, requiring no justification, similar to how people usually claim to know that other minds exist. He has also argued that there is no logical inconsistency between the existence of evil and the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, wholly good god. Plantinga is the author of a number of books, including God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and Warranted Christian Belief (2000). He has delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures three times, and was described by Time magazine in 1980 as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God." Biography Family Plantinga was born on November 15, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Cornelius A. Plantinga and Lettie Plantinga. Plantinga's father was a first generation immigrant, born in the Netherlands . His family is originally from the Dutch province of Friesland . Plantinga s father earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Duke University and a Master's Degree in psychology, and taught several academic subjects at different colleges over the years. One of Plantinga's brothers, Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga, Jr., is a theologian and ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel. To get started finding American Members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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70
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155733142
American Members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul B. Henry, Richard Devos, Lewis B. Smedes, William Spoelhof, Gaylen Byker, Frederick Manfred, Cornelius Plantinga. Excerpt: Alvin Carl Plantinga Alvin Carl Plantinga (born 1932) is an American Christian philosopher, currently the John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame . He is known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, and Christian apologetics . He is particularly known for applying the methods of analytic philosophy to defend orthodox Christian beliefs. Notably, he has argued that some people can know that God exists as a basic belief, requiring no justification, similar to how people usually claim to know that other minds exist. He has also argued that there is no logical inconsistency between the existence of evil and the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, wholly good god. Plantinga is the author of a number of books, including God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and Warranted Christian Belief (2000). He has delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures three times, and was described by Time magazine in 1980 as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God." Biography Family Plantinga was born on November 15, 1932 in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Cornelius A. Plantinga and Lettie Plantinga. Plantinga's father was a first generation immigrant, born in the Netherlands . His family is originally from the Dutch province of Friesland . Plantinga s father earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Duke University and a Master's Degree in psychology, and taught several academic subjects at different colleges over the years. One of Plantinga's brothers, Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga, Jr., is a theologian and ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel. To get started finding American Members of the Christian Reformed Church in North America: Alvin Plantinga, Scott Brown, Vern Ehlers, Jay Van Andel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.