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: “If Christian belief is true, then very likely it does have warrant – then in some other similar way.”
Plantinga’s model provides an incoherent account of the formation of Christian belief. They object to describing an ‘activity’ (in this c (cognitive) ‘mechanism ’ They think “Plantinga is wrong to treat ‘cognitive process’ and ‘belief producing mechanism’ as more or less synonymous descriptions of the activity of ian belief.” And: “The Holy Spirit acts as a Person, not as mechanism.” fully compatible with Plantinga’s A/C model. I fail to see why this is incoherent.
though they can also have important differences. What matters in case of Plantinga’s
involved such as ‘cognitive faculty ’ ‘cognitive process ’ ‘mechanism ’ and the role of any
WCB
WCB, 284: “...the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit ... is a cognitive process or belief faith...”
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