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Theological Responses to Plantinga’s A/C Model – Benno van den Toren 3
Plantinga’s externalist approach does indeed avoid such problems. His model gives a irrational. Such belief, if true, can have warrant. Given Van den Toren’s main interest in de jure de jure de facto
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God’s revelation is also mediated to us by the testimony of others. There is a major role r Scripture in this process as it is the testimony to the reality of God’s self history. Apologetics itself is also testimony or witness as it points to God’s mighty deeds
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of modernity (referring a.o. to the discussion in Plantinga’s Warrant and Proper Function prima facie unless there are possible defeaters (again referring to Plantinga’s discussion of these matters). Van den Toren concludes that “if beliefs produced by testimony are prima facie basis of a foundationalist type of noetic structure.” of beliefs based on testimony if we follow Plantinga’s approach to warrant. A belief can be
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