The Gospel Coalition has posted a set of interviews (click here), totaling about 25 minutes, with Alvin Plantinga, author of the trilogy on Warrant:
Plantinga has now written a brief, 144pp. book summarizing this trilogy for a more lay-audience, or, perfectly, for theologians with little philosophical training. This work is entitled Knowledge and Christian Belief and will be released April 10, 2015.
Although this is properly a biblical studies blog, epistemology (theory of knowledge) is very important even in biblical studies today. To give only one example, N. T. Wright’s New Testament and the People of God begins with around 144pp. on a proper interpretive theory for the biblical texts, a large part of the discussion being epistemological. Plantinga is considered one of the top epistemologists in any philosophical circle, not just Christian circles, and because of his work, it is no longer considered irrational or academically inferior to believe in or even to talk about God when doing philosophy. Check out the interview and, if inclined, order his books! If you tackle the trilogy, it’s best to read through them in the order posted above (and the order of the pictures below). If you want to just read his new, brief work, I’m sure it will be an excellent summary of his entire work and much more accessible.
