Abstract
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Michael DeVito develop a thoroughly original and Orthodox model for how Christian belief, and, even specifically Eastern Christian belief, can be warranted. They do this by creatively bringing recent work on religious experience, in the context of the Divine Liturgy, into conversation with Alvin Plantinga’s well-known explication of Reformed Epistemology. What emerges is a distinctly Eastern Christian approach to warranted Christian belief, that modifies and, arguably, improves upon Plantinga’s original model.
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Erik Baldwin and Tyler Dalton McNabb (2018) challenge this assumption.
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For more on Kant and Plantinga’s epistemology, see Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin (2017).
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See On the Orthodox Faith 3 (1.3) ed. P. Bonifatius Kotter, Die Schriften des Johannes von Damaskos, 8 vol (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1969–1988), 2:10–11, trans. S.D.F. Salmond, NPNF 2/9:2; Fragmenta philosophica (e cod. Oxon. Bodl. Auct. T. 1.6) 18.72–73 Greek text Die Schriften des Johannes Damaskos, 1:172 Alexey Fokin translation.
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See Chapter 3 in Alfeyey for an in-depth analysis of each liturgical element.
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Examples like this are discussed in Hasan and Fumerton (2019).
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This is roughly what Dumsday (ibid., p. 170) has in mind.
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Roughly, internalism is the thesis that in order for S’s belief to possess positive epistemic status, S must have access to those properties which confer the positive epistemic status.
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For more on this, see chapters two and three of McNabb (2018)
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McNabb, T.D., DeVito, M. (2022). Warranted Eastern Christian Belief: Extending Plantinga’s Extended AC Model. In: Siemens, J., Brown, J.M. (eds) Eastern Christian Approaches to Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10762-7_7
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