The Self-Contradiction in Plantinga's Religious Epistemology and Exclusivism

Modern Philosophy 3:99-111 (2007)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In this paper, for the contemporary American religious philosopher Champlain Dingge "assured Christian faith," the epistemology of religious truth, that, according to Kaplan Dingge the exclusivity of the epistemology of religious truth, and can not guarantee that the Christian faith in the face of other When the superiority of religious beliefs, as other religions also claim that they meet the standard Kaplan Dingge religious truth, which their faith is true. So Champlain Dingge epistemology is self-contradictory, failure. In contrast, Kaplan Dingge teacher Alston and survival of the practice of religious truth on the way into the more desirable. In this article the author analyses Prof. Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology and exclusivism mainly embodied in his recent book Warranted Christian Belief, point out that according to Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology-its standard and condition for religious truth, other religions can also claim their religious beliefs are warranted , so that Warranted Christian belief has no privilege to claim it is the only religious truth. As Plantinga's religious epistemology cannot get universal religious knowledge, or even worse, cannot rationally argue conflict truth-claims to be false , it shows effortless and self-contradiction. The author thinks that Plantinga's mentor, Prof. William Aiston's practical and existential approach to deal with the problem of conflict religious truth-claims will be more reasonable to be accepted by people today

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Moral and religious epistemology.Bruno Niederbacher - 2005 - Philosophy and Culture 32 (4):19-42.
Reformed Epistemology and the Problem of Religious Diversity.Ramona Hosu - 2013 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 12 (34):266-274.
The Epistemological Challenge of Religious Pluralism.John Hick - 1997 - Faith and Philosophy 14 (3):277-286.
Reforming Reformed Epistemology.Duncan Pritchard - 2003 - International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1):43-66.
What Is Distinctive About the Epistemology of Religious Belief?William P. Alston - 1999 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 4:91-102.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-02-05

Downloads
0

6 months
0

Historical graph of downloads

Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references