Interview with Alvin Plantinga
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Alvin Plantinga is author of KNOWLEDGE AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF [www.eerdmans.com/Products/7204...], a philosophically serious yet accessible investigation of the rationality of Christian belief.
In his widely praised Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) Alvin Plantinga discussed in great depth the question of the rationality, or sensibility, of Christian belief. In this book Plantinga presents the same ideas in a briefer, much more accessible fashion.
Recognized worldwide as a leading Christian philosopher, Plantinga probes what exactly is meant by the claim that religious - and specifically Christian - belief is irrational and cannot sensibly be held. He argues that the criticisms of such well-known atheists as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are completely wrong. Finally, Plantinga addresses several potential "defeaters" to Christian belief - pluralism, science, evil and suffering - and shows how they fail to successfully defeat rational Christian belief.
Video Credits
Interviewer: Rachel Bomberger
Production Assistant and Camer Operator: Philip Zoutendam
Producer, Camera Operator, and Editor: Ahna Ziegler
Btw, Great interview. Thank you Rachel, Philip and Ahna for sharing this with us. :)
Thank you for this!
I just ordered this a few minutes ago. I just found out about this man and I'm excited to learn and find out about his views and outlook on things I'm interested in which is Christian Philosophy. :)
Brilliant. Thank you.
During the brief discussion of Calvin, the statement of the character Jesus in the Gospel comes to mind, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Purity of heart would certainly involve the rejection of the false, and the pursuit of truth. Take the possibility of oblivion upon death. Logically, no regret, no pain, no suffering, no sadness, no loneliness, no awareness of anything adverse is true of oblivion, therefore it is nothing to fear, and therefore for anyone who has thought through this brief, logical exercise, there is no need to "aim" the mind at mitigating oblivion. One could argue many people have yet to conduct the exercise, and out of attachment or love of others, they yearn to maintain the attachment, ergo memorials, attention to ancestors, etc. But again, oblivion makes no provision for yearning. One can understand yearning comes to an end, and without further awareness of the end. It's akin to general anesthesia. I fear neither it nor dreamless sleep. This is my dismissal of Freud's hypothesis on faith. Marx is not so easy to dismiss. We experience economic injustice, and religion seems to provide a distraction from one's conditions. The elite have an interest in such an effect of religion, and therefore have an interest in creating and maintaining it, without practicing it themselves. The elite is clever enough to camouflage their purposes by even including anti-elite statements in religious writings. This clouds the notion of coming to faith through historical text. What is left to people of the 21st century is a proposal, "How much more then, will the Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him." It is possible that God can make himself known to a person, but our relationship with matter and energy, makes "sensing" that presence ambiguous, because it does not suit our more customary interactions with the world. But it was what the character Jesus was after, that we, today, would finally know him. Is Freud coming back into play? The proposal "Christ is risen" is not a call to tolerate injustice for all will be put right after death. It is a call to question the proposal of oblivion, and to get up from sleep every day, and ask Him for that Spirit, and see what happens.
I tried for years, begging for something but I as it turns out, I have absolutely no sense of supernatural stuff. So guess, no, I know Aquinas was wrong.
Or perhaps you are suffering from some cogitive malfunction, which results in making it far more difficult to perceive what most other people who have lived have perceived.
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You have to have faith in good, that's the only step
@@crabb9966 well, I'm Christian now. The original comment is pretty cringe
@@YOSUP315 wonderful, what changed do you think?
You're not talking about God, but the Trinity, just one of the many gods in history. Belief in any of them can be a warranted belief. Am I wrong? No I'm not for I sense the presence of Apollo every day. An unflawed sensus divinitatis connects with Him, not with the Trinity.
This guy waffles on with such nonsense.
Clearly the interviewer is awestruck. I have no idea why.
The person who waffles here is only you.
Are you able to argue your statement or it is only a bullshit? Firstly, learn some metaphysics.
Plantinga should realise that #metaphysics should follow our knowledge of #Physics. That is after all what metaphysics is meant to be!
+My OpenMind Physics follows metaphysics, both chronologically and logically.
You cannot make a physical claim without having an ontological framework in place, what counts as an object of study etc?
+My OpenMind To quote a famous atheist: 'just because something is unintelligable doesn't make it unintelligent'
It's not nonsense at all. Why do you think that?