God in the Age of Science?

Philipse, Herman

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“…As far as intelligent, reflective Christians and non-believers are 7 concerned, Plantinga's account of warranted Christian belief 'merely depicts a logical possibility'. 17 These claims fall flat on closer inspection. Since the explicitly and repeatedly stated purpose of Plantinga's account is to provide Christian believers with an appropriate way in which to conceive of the positive epistemic status of their Christian beliefs, it is nothing against it that it does only that.…”

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“…Because we cannot test whether the sensus divinitatis is a reliable belief-forming process, we cannot tell whether the resulting religious beliefs enjoy warrant in the basic way; the level of generality at which the functioning of this belief-producing faculty is to be described is uncertain. 22 This objection, too, comes to nothing. On an externalist account of warrant such as Plantinga's, you can be fully warranted in endorsing properly basic religious beliefs in spite of your (or anyone's) inability to discover whether the conditions for warrant are satisfied.…”

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“…Plantinga's account, however, does nothing to answer the question of God's existence. 16 Secondly, Philipse thinks the model is only useful for a small group of people. It only provides comfort to 'unwavering Christians' who do not doubt the truth of their religious beliefs.…”

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“…And the model teaches critics of religion that de jure objections to religious belief must be grounded in de facto objections. 19 Quite apart from this, various claims in the periphery of the model contain suggestions -all of them rooted firmly in the Christian tradition -for how the sensus divinitatis might be triggered and how the Holy Spirit might reveal the 'great truths of the gospel' to our minds. Surely, this is of use to wavering and unwavering Christians alike, as well as to agnostics and atheists.…”

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Shipwrecked or Holding Water? In Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Believer

Ridder¹,

Berger²

2013

Philo

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Herman Philipse argues that Christian belief cannot be warranted in Alvin Plantinga's sense.More specifically, he thinks it is impossible for intellectually responsible and modern believers to hold their religious beliefs in the manner of properly basic beliefs, not on the basis of explicit evidence or arguments. In this paper, we consider his objections to Plantinga's work and argue that they all fail.

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Section: Two Red Herringsmentioning

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Section: Two Red Herringsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Two Red Herringsmentioning

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Shipwrecked or Holding Water? In Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Believer

Ridder¹,

Berger²

2013

Philo

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“…The idea of the empty grave is a legend, composed by Mark, the first Gospel writer. He interpreted the original story about a Resurrection in heaven in Greco-Roman terms as a Resurrection of the earthly body: Just like Hercules, Aeneas and Romulus, Jesus ascended to heaven in his earthly body, leaving behind an empty grave (Philipse 2001(Philipse , 2012. This is not the view of a few eccentric biblical scholars and historians, but that of 'the academic establishment'.…”

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The ultimate miracle? The historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus

Sarot

2014

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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This contribution compares two views of the Resurrection of Christ; a traditional view that assumes that at the Resurrection, the dead body of Christ was transformed with the result that after the Resurrection, the grave was empty, and a revised view that assumes that the grave was not empty and that the Resurrection of Christ is not something that happened in this world, but in heaven. On the basis of a consideration of arguments for and against both views, the author argues for the traditional view. He goes on to show, however, that the traditional view cannot be adopted by historians who apply the principle of analogy. He argues, moreover, that this principle cannot be abandoned altogether. In the case of alleged singular events or miracles, however, this principle cannot be applied. This means that even if, as the author argues, the Resurrection is Geschichte (it really happened in this world, and the grave was empty), it falls outside the scope of Historie (it cannot be ascertained by the methods of strict historiography).

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Mackie, John Leslie

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2021

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion

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The Australian philosopher J.L. Mackie (1917–1981) made significant contributions to (meta‐)ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of religion. At least two of his six books, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977) and The Miracle of Theism (1982), became classics in their field. This entry on Mackie is devoted to his last book, in which he develops a convincing case for atheism.

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God in the Age of Science?

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Shipwrecked or Holding Water? In Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Believer

Shipwrecked or Holding Water? In Defense of Alvin Plantinga’s Warranted Christian Believer

The ultimate miracle? The historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus

Mackie, John Leslie

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