I answer Alvin Plantinga’s challenge to provide a ‘proper’ de jure objection to religious belief. What I call the ‘sophisticates’ evidential objection’ (SEO) concludes that sophisticated Christians lack epistemic justification for believing central Christian propositions. The SEO utilizes a theory of epistemic justification in the spirit of the evidentialism of Richard Feldman and Earl Conee. I...

This paper aims to be a brief discussion about the character of “evidentialism” in the discussion between William Clifford and William James. Known under the topic “the ethics of belief,” it discusses the problem of religious epistemology, specifically the status of the rationality of religious beliefs. After such discussion, we shall adduce in an introductory way Alvin Plantinga’s so-called “r...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...

The article reveals the main provisions of discussion on relationship between modern science and theism two famous American philosophers – naturalist Daniel Dennett “analytic theist” Alvin Plantinga. debate took place in 2009 as part session Central Division Philosophical Association was published 2011 under title “ Science Religion: Are They Compatible?” positions analyzed are reproduced conne...

Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with famous free will defense has not succeeded solving logical problem evil. However, is alone disputing this generally accepted view philosophy religion. D. Z. Phillips (1934–2006) argued evil been solved and he further holds it...