Alvin Carl Plantinga (/born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.
Plantinga is widely known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics and Christian apologetics. He is the author of numerous books including God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000). He has delivered the Gifford Lectures three times and was described by TIME magazine as “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God”.
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Below are a number of very short You Tubes brought to us by our friends at The Center For the Philosophy of Religion which present differing aspects of Dr. Plantinga’s thought, we hope that you find them both informative and helpful. There are articles and more videos for those who would like to learn more on a specific topic. The below resources were derived from
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The Modal Ontological Argument
Articles:
Ontological Arguments for the Existence of God – Alvin Plantinga
The Ontological Argument Simplified – Lynne Rudder Baker and Gareth B. Matthews
The Ontological Argument – Kenneth Einar Himma
Modal Versions of the Ontological Argument – William Rowe
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Transworld Depravity
Articles:
Transworld Depravity, Transworld Sanctity, & Uncooperative Essences – Alvin Plantinga
Transworld Depravity and Unobtainable Worlds – Richard Otte
Transworld Sanctity – Daniel Howard-Snyder and John O’Leary-Hawthorne
Video: Does evil disprove God?
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Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge
Articles:
On Ockham’s Way Out – Alvin Plantinga
Plantinga on Foreknowledge and Freedom – Philip L. Quinn
Divine Foreknowledge and Alternative Conceptions of Human Freedom – William P. Alston
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Articles:
Supralapsarianism, or ‘O Felix Culpa’ – Alvin Plantinga
Plantinga on “Felix Culpa”: Analysis and Critique – Marilyn McCord Adams
Recent Work on the Problem of Evil – Trent Dougherty
Video: Does evil disprove God?
Felix Culpa
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The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
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Article: An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
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