Theology's Epistemological Dilemma
How Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga Provide a Unified Response| By: | Kevin Diller |
| Publisher: | InterVarsity Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780830839063 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780830896998 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 theologyof 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 eachother: 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 anxietyto the questions that face believers today.