“The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.”

Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga - “The Christian philosopher has a...” 1

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