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Theological Responses to Plantinga’s A/C Model – James Beilby
developed faith.” Other examples are: “It is only in the pure and paradigmatic instances      ’ .’” and “for the person with faith (at least in the             g.”                           this concern in a more recent essay as follows: “Religious epistemology can and should                                 percent of Christians.”
                                                      ore of his objection as follows: “The fact that the              faith of typical believers undercuts one of Plantinga’s stated goals for his project: namely,     odel ‘provides a good way for Christians to think about the    ’”                                             whether these conclusions are a valid interpretation of Plantinga’s 
Beilby states that this problem does not mean that Plantinga’s model is                             Warrant             
       
The ‘Great Pumpkin Objection’ refers to a specific objection made by people regarding Plantinga’s A/C model for warranted Christian belief. The objection is that “if belief in God                   can be properly basic, then all bets are off, and anything goes.”                                                         
An Illustration: The ‘Great Pumpkin Objection’
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 Beilby, ‘Contemporary Religious Epistemology: Some Key Aspects,’ 796; see also his comments   
   Epistemology as Theology    WCB   WCB    RBG     
  Epistemology as Theology    WCB 
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