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Theological Responses to Plantinga’s A/C Model – K. Scott Oliphint
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from this review of Oliphint’s response.
Oliphint states the reason for his proposed modification as follows: “...I would like to set epistemology.” summarise Oliphint’s proposed modification in order to see what it is that he misses in Plantinga’s
4.2.2 Proposed Modification of Plantinga’s Approach
Oliphint’s epistemology is determined by the notion that man has been created in God’s image. In this sense, man is different from the rest of God’s creation. Creation epistemology according to Oliphint: “It is this crucial but almost universally neglected – – that is the theological key to a Christian epistemology.”
inextricably tied to our knowledge of God according to Oliphint. This also means that “any idea of properly basic belief must find its ground in God’s revelati ”
Oliphint concludes that this approach is fully compatible with a ‘proper function ’ referring to Plantinga’s concept of warranted true belief based on Plantinga’s emphasis on the role of the
The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
Oliphint, ‘The Old New Reformed Epistemology,’ 208; see also Oliphint, ‘Is There a Reformed to Natural Theology?’
Oliphint, ‘The Old New Reformed Epistemology,’ 211. Oliphint, ‘The Old New Reformed Epistemology,’ 214. Oliphint, ‘The Old New Reformed Epistemology,’ 215. Oliphint, ‘The Old New Reformed Epistemology,’ 211. KCB
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