PLANTINGA, Alvin

PLANTINGA, Alvin
(1938-)
   American CALVINIST philosopher who has written extensively on both the ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT and the PROBLEM OF EVIL. His book God and Other Minds (1969) is a modern philosophical defence of THEISM.

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