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that Plantinga’s model allows for the possibility of degrees of warrant. S
Assurance of Faith and the Degree of Warrant
book, he states: “At human knowing is consistent with confident assurance.” our belief originates in God’s revelation. But how can we know this? The experience of this assurance may be very different in different people, but “the assurance is grown in us historical, psychological, social, cultural, and linguistic frameworks.” that the ground of our knowledge is secured for us in Jesus Christ who stands “in our place participation in his perfect human knowledge of God.” the proposal of his book intends to point us to a profound and reasonable hope: “What is impossible with man is possible with God” (Lk 18:27).
Diller raises another challenge to Plantinga’s A/C model regarding its alleged Plantinga’s account of the SD internal church would become the ground for knowledge of God or, to use Plantinga’s terminology,
5.4.5 The Role of the Church and Testimony
Theology’s Epistemological Dilemma
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