scholarly journals CRENÇA CRISTÃ GARANTIDA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Bruno Ribeiro Nascimento ◽  
Gabriela Medeiros Marinho ◽  
Jorhanna Isabelle Araújo de Brito Gomes

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a objeção de jure formulada por Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) que alega que a crença teísta é irracional. Faremos isso através de uma comparação entre a proposta de Freud e a do filósofo americano Alvin Plantinga, que utiliza o conceito de garantia como a qualidade ou quantidade que distingue o conhecimento da mera crença verdadeira. Para Plantinga, uma crença é garantida quando é formada por faculdades cognitivas agindo em pleno funcionamento. Dessa forma, Plantinga elabora o modelo Aquino e Calvino que postula o sensus divinitatis como uma faculdade cognitiva que dá garantia a crença cristã. Por outro lado, Freud afirma que a crença em Deus resulta de uma disfunção cognitiva. Utilizamos do método bibliográfico, com uma abordagem dedutiva ao, sendo o objetivo de caráter exploratório. Concluímos que Freud alega que a crença teísta é irracional ao pressupor uma objeção de facto, isto é, ao partir do pressuposto que Deus não existe, quanto Plantinga mostra porque a alegação de Freud é injustificada.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Bálint Békefi

Abstract Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga represent two strands of American Protestant philosophical thought influenced by Dutch neo-Calvinism. This paper compares and synthetizes their models of knowledge in non-Christians given the noetic effects of sin and non-Christian worldview commitments. The paper argues that Van Til’s distinction between the partial realization of the antithesis in practice and its absolute nature in principle correlates with Plantinga’s insistence on prima facie–warranted common-sense beliefs and their ultimate defeasibility given certain metaphysical commitments. Van Til endorsed more radical claims than Plantinga on epistemic defeat in non-Christian worldviews, the status of the sensus divinitatis, and conceptual accuracy in knowledge of the world. Finally, an approach to the use of evidence in apologetics is developed based on the proposed synthesis. This approach seeks to make more room for evidence than is generally recognized in Van Tilianism, while remaining consistent with the founder’s principles.


2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
BLAKE MCALLISTER ◽  
TRENT DOUGHERTY

AbstractAlvin Plantinga theorizes the existence of a sensus divinitatis – a special cognitive faulty or mechanism dedicated to the production and non-inferential justification of theistic belief. Following Chris Tucker, we offer an evidentialist-friendly model of the sensus divinitatis whereon it produces theistic seemings that non-inferentially justify theistic belief. We suggest that the sensus divinitatis produces these seemings by tacitly grasping support relations between the content of ordinary experiences (in conjunction with our background evidence) and propositions about God. Our model offers advantages such as eliminating the need for a sui generis religious faculty, harmonizing the sensus divinitatis with prominent theories in the cognitive science of religion, and providing a superior account of natural revelation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
P. De Vries

This article analyzes and evaluates Alvin Plantinga view of the status and authority of the Bible. It shows the relevance of two or more kinds of Christian Biblical scholarship Plantinga develops in Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga argues that we can speak of knowledge when there is a warrant.Cognitive faculties include a sense of experience, the sensus divinitatis, and the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. A properly functioning cognitive faculty produces knowledge. The Christian belief that the Bible is the Word of God is not just a conviction but knowledge, knowledge that leads one to glorify and enjoy God.


1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEREK S. JEFFREYS

In his recent two volumes on epistemology, Alvin Plantinga surveys contemporary theories of knowledge thoroughly, and carefully defends an externalist epistemology. He promises that in a third volume, Warranted Christian Belief, he will present John Calvin's sensus divinitatis as an epistemic module akin to sense perception, a priori knowledge, induction, testimony and other epistemic modules. Plantinga defines the sensus divinitatis as a ‘many sided disposition to accept belief in God (or propositions that immediately and obviously entail the existence of God) in a variety of circumstances’. Like other epistemic modules, it produces beliefs in an appropriate cognitive environment, aims at the production of true beliefs, and generates beliefs which have a high statistical probability of being true.


2021 ◽  
pp. 002114002110177
Author(s):  
Andrew Hollingsworth

One of the foundational concepts for Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theological anthropology is his notion of ‘openness to the world.’ Openness to the world, according to Pannenberg, is essential to human identity in that one’s identity is established in their openness to the world, to the other, and, ultimately, to God. I aim to bring Pannenberg’s openness to the world into dialogue with the concept of the sensus divinitatis as articulated by John Calvin and further developed by Alvin Plantinga. The question driving this paper is whether or not Pannenberg’s openness to the world can rightly be understood as the sensus divinitatis, and, if so, what might be some benefits of it. I conclude that Pannenberg’s understanding of openness to the world is a fruitful way of understanding the sensus divinitatis and a fruitful way of arguing for and explaining humanity’s innate knowledge of God.


Crisis ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoon A. Leenaars

Summary: Older adults consistently have the highest rates of suicide in most societies. Despite the paucity of studies until recently, research has shown that suicides in later life are best understood as a multidimensional event. An especially neglected area of research is the psychological/psychiatric study of personality factors in the event. This paper outlines one comprehensive model of suicide and then raises the question: Is such a psychiatric/psychological theory applicable to all suicides in the elderly? To address the question, I discuss the case of Sigmund Freud; raise the topic of suicide and/or dignified death in the terminally ill; and examine suicide notes of the both terminally ill and nonterminally ill elderly. I conclude that, indeed, greater study and theory building are needed into the “suicides” of the elderly, including those who are terminally ill.


1979 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-537
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
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1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1007-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Wachtel
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