The Self-Contradiction in Plantinga's Religious Epistemology and Exclusivism
Abstract
In this paper, for the contemporary American religious philosopher Champlain Dingge "assured Christian faith," the epistemology of religious truth, that, according to Kaplan Dingge the exclusivity of the epistemology of religious truth, and can not guarantee that the Christian faith in the face of other When the superiority of religious beliefs, as other religions also claim that they meet the standard Kaplan Dingge religious truth, which their faith is true. So Champlain Dingge epistemology is self-contradictory, failure. In contrast, Kaplan Dingge teacher Alston and survival of the practice of religious truth on the way into the more desirable. In this article the author analyses Prof. Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology and exclusivism mainly embodied in his recent book Warranted Christian Belief, point out that according to Alvin Plantinga's religious epistemology-its standard and condition for religious truth, other religions can also claim their religious beliefs are warranted , so that Warranted Christian belief has no privilege to claim it is the only religious truth. As Plantinga's religious epistemology cannot get universal religious knowledge, or even worse, cannot rationally argue conflict truth-claims to be false , it shows effortless and self-contradiction. The author thinks that Plantinga's mentor, Prof. William Aiston's practical and existential approach to deal with the problem of conflict religious truth-claims will be more reasonable to be accepted by people today