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The Problem Stated
Theological Responses to Plantinga’s A/C Model – Kevin Diller
inga’s A/C model, the problem boils
down to the issue of the truth of the Christian faith. In Plantinga’s model the truth of the 5
5.4.3 Is there Knowledge of God Apart from Faith? The
nature of such knowledge? This topic entails a major challenge to Plantinga’s A/C model
Plantinga’s aim with his basic A/C model is to show and explain how theistic belief can encompass the details of specifically Christian belief. Plantinga’s model e
Barth’s theology of revelation has Jesus Christ as its content, centre and focus. For e of God is exclusively the result of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. This knowledge is the result of God’s initiative through his Holy Spirit. The states: “If there is a sensus divinitatis operates within the realm of the Spirit.” obtained through saving faith in Christ. As Diller states: “In Barth’s view revelation is bound up with soteriology,” “For Barth, a human knowledge of God is genuine if and only if it is knowledge by faith.”
God Barth refers to, which results from God’s r problem concisely as follows: “Suffice it to say that – – sensus divinitatis
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