PP209 Study Guide - Reformed Epistemology, Basic Belief, Foundationalism
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Reformed epistemology and the rationality of theistic belief james f. Reformed epistemology is the simple yet profound idea that theistic belief can be, and typically is justified without appeal to evidence. Theistic belief any belief that directly entails the existence of the god of theism the. Theistic belief is typically properly basic deriving its justification immediately from some appropriate experience. Theistic beliefs are appropriately produced by certain experiences, and therefore justified. Important motivation for plantinga"s reformed epistemology theory is the doctrine of the sensus divinitatis, introduced by the father of reformed theology, the sixteenth-century theologian john calvin. Calvin argued that human beings have a sense of the divine that enables us to perceive god in much the same way that our perceptual senses enable us to perceive the world around us. Plantinga"s most ffamous claim is that theistic belief is typically properly basic.
