id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-886 Alvin Plantinga - Wikipedia .html text/html 7782 1128 61 Alvin Carl Plantinga[a] (born 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. He has delivered the Gifford Lectures two times and was described by Time magazine as "America's leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God".[5] William Lane Craig wrote in his work Reasonable Faith that he considers Plantinga to be the greatest Christian philosopher alive.[6] In 2014, Plantinga was the 30th most-cited contemporary author in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[7] A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.[8] Some of Plantinga's most influential works include God and Other Minds (1967), The Nature of Necessity (1974), and a trilogy of books on epistemology, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief (2000) that was simplified in Knowledge and Christian Belief (2015).[citation needed] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-886.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-886.txt