{"id":1400,"date":"2025-08-15T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?page_id=1400"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:09:14","slug":"front-plate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/phd\/front-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead p-md-5\">\n<p>\u201cAccording to the view of Christian philosophy I and others advocate, Christian philosophers should consider the whole range of problems from a Christian or theistic point of view; in trying to give philosophical account of some area or topic-freedom, for example, evil, or the nature of knowledge, or of counterfactuals, or of probability, she may perfectly properly appeal to what she knows or believes as a Christian.\u00a0 She is under no obligation to appeal only to beliefs shared by nearly what common sense and contemporary science dictate, for example. \u00a0Nor is she obliged first to try to prove to the satisfaction of other philosophers Christianity is true before setting out on this enterprise of Christian philosophy.\u00a0 Instead, she is entirely within her rights in <em>starting from<\/em> her Christian beliefs addressing the philosophical problems in question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><strong>Alvin Plantinga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtheism assumes theism\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><strong>Cornelius Van Til<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand \u2013 in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science \u2013 he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. 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And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><strong>Abraham Kuyper (1880), at the opening of the Free University of Amsterdam.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the righteous increase [in influence and authority], the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan.\u201d (Pro 29:2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><strong>The Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\"><a title=\"Author's Declaration\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/phd\/authors-declaration\/\">Author&#8217;s Declaration<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 text-right\"><a title=\"Acknowledgments\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/phd\/acknowledgments\/\">Acknowledgments<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccording to the view of Christian philosophy I and others advocate, Christian philosophers should consider the whole range of problems from a Christian or theistic point of view; 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