Alvin Carl Plantinga Research Paper

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Alvin Carl Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga born on November 15, 1932. He is an American analytic philosopher who major in logic, justification, philosophy of religion, and epistemology. Moreover, from 1983 to 1986, Plantinga also known as a prominent Christian philosopher and served president of the Society of Christian Philosophers. “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God” is the title that being given to him and it was described by Time magazine. Alvin Plantinga has avowedly been trying to establish the rationality of believing without evidence that God exists. “It is entirely right, rational, reasonable, and proper to believe in God without any evidence or argument at all.” These words or quote was taken from the quotation …show more content…

• There is no evidence or at any rate not sufficient evidence for the proposition that God exists.
Alvin Plantinga has canvassed them lucidly in his books Does God have a Nature? A substance’s essence, says Plantinga, will be a certain one of its properties – that conjunctive property which includes as conjuncts those properties which all which the substances has in all possible worlds in which it exists. So if God is identical with God’s essence, then God is identical with a property. But God, being a person, is not a property.
As the Christian sees things, Plantinga claims, ours is a suffering God. The pressure to reject divine impassibility are clear: to modern sensibilities an impossible deity seems woefully out of touch with both biblical and personal experience; they value a God who suffers with us, who hears and responds to our prayers, who is active in redemptive history and attentive to our personal needs. They want God who loves us and is responsive to our free choices, who answer prayer and when they lose their way, coaxes them back to themselves. …show more content…

His theory was known as Kalam Cosmological theory. This theory is about the existence of universe thus will explains the existence of god by his philosophical thinking. Imam Al-Ghazali who was a theologian from the 12th-century that lives in Persia concerned about the Muslim theologians in his day were being highly influenced by the Greek philosophy, and this happen to make the theologian denied the creation of the universe by God (Allah S.W.T.) instead these philosophers held that the universe just flows necessarily out of being the being of God. Therefore, this universe was eternal and beginning less and in fact just as necessary as God is the world as a sort of emanation out of the being of god. After thoroughly studying the writings of these philosophers, Imam Al-Ghazali wrote a withering critique of their views in a book of his own entitled “The Incoherence of the Philosopher’s. In this book. Imam Al-Ghazali argues that the idea of a beginning less universe is absurd. He argues that the universe must have a beginning and since nothing comes into being without a cause there must be a transcendent creator of the