Faith and Rationality

A collection of essays edited by Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by the University of Notre Dame Press. It is the volume in which the position later called Reformed epistemology was first set out at length: the view that belief in God can be rational, and properly basic, without resting on evidence or argument. Plantinga's own long contribution, "Reason and Belief in God," criticises classical foundationalism and the evidentialist objection to theistic belief and argues that belief in God may be among a person's basic beliefs. Wolterstorff and other contributors write on the same theme. The book stands at the start of the line that leads through the Warrant trilogy to Warranted Christian Belief.