Alvin Plantinga and the Revival of Religious Philosophy

Philosophy, as the word suggests, is the ‘love of wisdom’.  Like every academic discipline, philosophy rarely lives up to the standard of its best practitioners, which is why their texts are read.

Alvin Plantinga has managed to recapture something of philosophy’s original sense in the breadth of his interests, while combining it with the rigour of today’s specialist.

In the 1960s, Time magazine’s cover proclaimed, “God is dead.” In 1980, Time magazine lauded Alvin Plantinga for his vigorous intellectual defense of God.

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