The Analytic Theist

Publisher Description

Alvin Plantinga, called by Time magazine “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God,” has had a profound impact on the philosophical discipline.

This book gathers in one place Plantinga’s most important work in the philosophy of religion generally and his contribution to the resurgence in Christian philosophy in particular.

Organized into four sections—“Natural Theology and Atheology,” “Reformed Epistemology,” “Divine Nature and Attributes,” and “Christian Philosophy”—these thirteen essays and book excerpts reflect the areas of thought in which Plantinga has been most influential. The volume also includes an Afterword by Plantinga and instructions for accessing his work on the World Wide Web.

Table of Contents

Preface

Alvin Plantinga: A Short Chronology

Introduction
The Analytic Theist: An Appreciation, by James F. Sennett

I. NATURAL THEOLOGY AND ATHEOLOGY1. God and Analogy
2. The Free Will Defense
3 The Ontological Argument
4. Is Naturalism Irrational? II. REFORMED EPISTEMOLOGY1. Reason and Belief in God
2. Justification and Theism
3. A Defense of Religious Exclusivism III. DIVINE NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES1. Necessary Being
2. Does God Have a Nature?
3. On Ockham's Way Out IV. CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY1. Advice to Christian Philosophers
2. Sheehan's Shenanigans: How Theology Becomes Tomfoolery
3. Christian Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century Afterword, by Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga: A Bibliography
Reprint Permission Acknowledgments