A long-time commenter at my blog, Jeff Kesterson, asked me to take a look at his 2018 article “An Overview of the Problem of Evil | Denying the Problem: Reformed Epistemology.” The article offers a critique of reformed epistemology and specifically Alvin Plantinga and yours truly. I’m not going to recap the argument here — […]
Reformed epistemology
Putting “Laurel or Yanny” into Divine Service
Unless you’ve been backpacking in the Himalayas for the last few days, you have been confronted with the latest internet meme: Laurel or Yanny? First, I’ll let my avatar handle this: All kidding aside, the lesson is that there are lower frequencies in the audio clip that sound like “Laurel” and higher frequencies that sound […]
In defense of rational disagreement
In the discussion thread to “66. Reformed Epistemology: A Conversation with Myron Penner” Mike D objected to Myron Penner’s description of Reformed epistemology because it supported the conclusion that “people who hold starkly antithetical beliefs can both claim to have formed them according to the criteria laid out by Penner.” In other words, two different […]
66. Reformed Epistemology: A Conversation with Myron Penner
There are several topics in philosophy of religion, and on its borderlands, which are famous for fomenting in their critics that devastating triumvirate of incredulity, derision and, alas, misunderstanding. Divine command theories of ethics and intelligent design theory come readily to mind … as does Reformed epistemology, that approach to the warrant of religious belief which […]
