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SUMMARY:WARRANTED CATHOLIC BELIEF: PLANTINGA’S RELIGIOUS EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE CATHOLIC TRADITION
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Online Conference hosted by the University of St Joseph\, Macao &mdash\; 18th-19th&nbsp\;March\, 2022&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>Alvin Plantinga and his fellow Reformed Epistemologists&rsquo\; claim that Christian belief can be &ldquo\;properly basic&rdquo\; has transformed analytic assessments of how the Christian faith can possess positive epistemic status. However\, explicit reactions to &ldquo\;Reformed Epistemology&rdquo\; from a Catholic perspective &ndash\; which mainly date from the early 1990&rsquo\;s &ndash\; vary from hostile incredulity to the mixture of appreciation and considered critique typified by the best-known Catholic response to Plantinga (Linda Zagzebski ed.&nbsp\;<em>Rational Faith: A Catholic Response to Reformed Epistemology</em>&nbsp\;(1993)).&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>But in the thirty years since&nbsp\;<em>Rational Faith</em>&nbsp\;was published\, philosophical evaluations of Reformed Epistemology and its relationship to traditional Christian accounts of faith and reason have developed considerably. Epistemologists have offered a variety of fresh critiques\, defences\, and adaptions of Plantinga&rsquo\;s account of warranted faith. Additionally\, detailed historical research has compared Plantinga&rsquo\;s epistemology to the work of many historical theologians and philosophers\, including Catholic thinkers such as Augustine\, Aquinas\, Scotus\, Newman\, Balthasar\, Maritain\, and MacIntyre.</p>\n<p><strong>The&nbsp\;<em>Warranted Catholic Belief&nbsp\;</em>conference (online\, 18th-19th&nbsp\;March 2022) will begin a long-overdue reconsideration of the relationship between Reformed Epistemology and Catholic thought.&nbsp\;</strong>We wish to highlight the influence of Reformed Epistemology as an apologetic project and its potential for adoption\, adaption or critique from a Catholic perspective. A further goal is to stimulate historical conversation about the affinities &ndash\; and differences &ndash\; between Plantinga&rsquo\;s epistemology and historical or contemporary Catholic accounts of faith. Finally\, we are keen to hear from non-Catholics about their views on the theological underpinnings of Reformed Epistemology.</p>\n<p><strong>We welcome papers which:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Appropriate\, evaluate\, or critique Reformed Epistemology from a Catholic theological and/or philosophical perspective.</li>\n<li>Compare and/or contrast the religious epistemology of Plantinga or other Reformed Epistemologists to accounts of faith and reason given by influential Catholic thinkers.</li>\n<li>Examine ways in which influential Catholic philosophers and/or theologians adumbrate or approximate themes in or relevant to Reformed Epistemology.</li>\n<li>Assess the compatibility between Catholic theology and Reformed Epistemology from non-Catholic Christian perspectives (Eastern Orthodox\, Baptist\, Pentecostal &hellip\;)</li>\n<li>Provide Catholic analyses or appropriations of Plantinga&rsquo\;s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism.</li>\n<li>Examine the potential for Catholics to use Reformed Epistemology in formation and evangelism outside the Academy.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Presentations will be 20 mins in length and are to be followed by 10 mins of questions</strong>. Please send short abstracts (100-300 words) to&nbsp\;<strong>tyler.mcnabb@usj.edu.mo</strong>&nbsp\;by&nbsp\;<strong>Sunday 31st&nbsp\;October 2021.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>All papers accepted for presentation at the&nbsp\;<em>Warranted Catholic Belief Conference</em>&nbsp\;will be considered for inclusion in a planned volume of essays exploring the relationship between Catholicism and Reformed Epistemology.</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>
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