Theology's Epistemological Dilemma : How Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga Provide a Unified Response.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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 One: 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 -- Primary Components of the Emerging Unified Proposal -- Part Two: 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 -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Is the Epistemic Problem? -- Chapter 2: Barth's Theology of Revelation -- Chapter 3: Barth's Engagement with Philosophy -- Chapter 4: Plantinga's Christian Philosophizing and Warrant -- Chapter 5: Plantinga's Epistemology of Christian Belief -- Chapter 6: Summarizing Interlude -- Chapter 7: Theology and Reason -- Chapter 8: Faith and Revelation -- Chapter 9: Scripture and Theology -- Concluding Postscript -- Praise for Theology's Epistemological Dilemma -- About the Author -- Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press.

Karl Barth and Alvin Plantinga are not thought of as theological allies. Barth is famous for his opposition to philosophy's role in theology, while Plantinga is famous for his emphasis on warranted belief. Kevin Diller argues that they actually offer a unified response to the central epistemological dilemma in theology.

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