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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 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.
Contents
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
