Theology's epistemological dilemma : how Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga provide a unified response

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Theology's epistemological dilemma : how Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga provide a unified response

Kevin Diller ; foreword by Alvin Plantinga

(Strategic initiatives in evangelical theology)

IVP Academic, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-321) and index

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内容説明

The problem of faith and reason is as old as Christianity itself. Today's philosophical, scientific and historical challenges make the epistemic problem inescapable for believers. Can faith justify its claims? Does faith give us confidence in the truth? Is believing with certainty a virtue or a vice? In Theology?s Epistemological Dilemma, Kevin Diller addresses this problem by drawing on two of the most significant responses in recent Christian thought: Karl Barth's theology of revelation and Alvin Plantinga's epistemology of Christian belief. This will strike many as unlikely, given the common stereotypes of both thinkers. Contrary to widespread misunderstanding, Diller offers a reading of both as complementary to each other: Barth provides what Plantinga lacks in theological depth, while Plantinga provides what Barth lacks in philosophical clarity. Diller presents a unified Barth/Plantinga proposal for theological epistemology capable of responding without anxiety to the questions that face believers today.

目次

Foreword by Alvin Plantinga Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Addressing the Epistemic Problems for Christian Faith The Primary Aim: Elucidating a Combined Barth/Plantinga Response A Secondary Aim: Analytic Theology and the Incompatibility of Barth and Plantinga Part I: Prospects for a Combined Barth/Plantinga Approach to Christian Theological Epistemology 1. What Is the Epistemic Problem? The Value of Skepticism What Is Knowledge? And What Does It Require? True Belief Particular Epistemic Issues for Christian Theology 2. Barth?s Theology of Revelation: For Us and for Our Salvation Knowing in Reflection on Revelation God as Object and Subject of His Personal, Cognitive Revelation The Hiddenness of God in Revelation Revelation as Whole-Person Transformation Conclusion 3. Barth?s Engagement with Philosophy: A Theo-foundational Epistemology Why Theology Is Not Philosophy Contesting the Ontological Presupposition of the Enlightenment The Boundary of Philosophy Conclusion 4. Plantinga?s Christian Philosophizing and Warrant The Concern of the Christian Philosopher Plantinga?s Epistemology and Warrant Conclusion 5. Plantinga?s Epistemology of Christian Belief: The Warrant of Revelation Preliminary Cautions Plantinga?s A/C Model of Theistic Belief Plantinga?s Extended A/C Model of Christian Belief Conclusion 6. Summarizing Interlude: The Unified Barth/Plantinga Approach to Christian Theological Epistemology Part II: A Unified Barth/Plantinga Response to Theology?s Contemporary Epistemological Issues 7. Theology and Reason: Natural Theology and the Reformed Objection Part 1: Barth?s Driving Concerns and the Natural Theology He Rejects Part 2: Plantinga on Natural Theology Part 3: The Relationship Between Barth and Plantinga on Natural Theology Conclusion 8. Faith and Revelation: What Constitutes a Genuine Human Knowledge of God? Barth and Three Aspects of the Knowledge of Faith The Critiques of Evans, Helm and Wolterstorff The Propositional Form and Content of the Knowledge of Faith Hiddenness, Analogy and History Plantinga and Barth on Faith and Knowing Conclusion 9. Scripture and Theology: Warrant and the Normativity of Scripture? Toward an Ontology of Scripture Warrant and the Authority of Scripture Conclusion Concluding Postscript: Fallibility and Assurance Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

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