A friend wrote me today, saying, “When I was studying philosophy in graduate school I never imagined that I would live to see a thoughtful profile in the New York Times on Alvin Plantinga, let alone a respectful discussion of his new book on religion and science and the renaissance of Christian philosophy. But here it is :”
There are vastly more Christian philosophers and vastly more visible or assertive Christian philosophy now than when I left graduate school, Mr. Plantinga said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Grand Rapids, adding, with characteristic modesty, I have no idea how it happened.Mr. Plantinga retired from full-time teaching last year, with more than a dozen books and a past presidency of the American Philosophical Association to his name. But hes hardly resting on those laurels. Having made philosophy safe for theism, hes now turning to a harder task: making theism safe for science.
He’s right. Who would have imagined? Good for Jennifer Schuessler. She is an editor at the New York Times Book Review and wrote the review.