Alvin Plantinga is an American earned his PhD at Yale, has held the University of Notre Dame’s Chair of Philosophy since 1982. He is also a founder, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers. In accordance to his theist view towards exclusivism, Plantinga challenges many pluralist, one of which is the philosopher John Hick. As previous explored by Hick, the condition of an individual’s birth relates to the commitment of environmental and genetic factors towards religion.
Plantinga objectively returns to Hick’s first hypothesis questioning this through arguing “I ought not to accept the religious views that that I have been brought up to accept, or the ones that I find myself inclined to accept” (Plantinga, 1995 pp 187) Evidently,
Plantinga objectively returns to Hick’s first hypothesis questioning this through arguing “I ought not to accept the religious views that that I have been brought up to accept, or the ones that I find myself inclined to accept” (Plantinga, 1995 pp 187) Evidently,