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CHAPTER 3
Theological Responses to Plantinga’s A/C Model – Benno van den Toren
with Plantinga’s epistemology and with his A/C model for Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue
3.1 Introduction
den Toren expresses his appreciation of Plantinga’s significant contribution to Plantinga’s work. Examples are his description of what it means that man has been in God’s image in relation to the sensus divinitatis in Plantinga’s A/C model), and the primacy of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ in relation to the role this plays in Plantinga’s extended A/C model.
other crucial aspects of Plantinga’s work.
His response to Plantinga’s epistemological Plantinga’s broad
His critique of key elements in Plantinga’s A/C model. The three main ones
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respond to God’s
I will now discuss each of these topics in turn by summarising Van den Toren’s views and
Van den Toren agrees with Plantinga’s criticism of the classic
3.2 Response to Plantinga’s Broad Foundationalism
Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Van den Toren, ‘De apologetische betekenis van Plantinga’s kentheorie,’ in: René van De kentheorie van Alvin Plantinga
Christian Apologetics as Cross-Cultural Dialogue
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