RT Article
T1 Externalism, Warrant, and the Question of Relativism: A Plantingian Assist to Smith
JF Pneuma
VO 43
IS 1
SP 94
OP 114
A1 Shin, Yoon
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752573129
AB Abstract According to James K.A. Smith, contemporary epistemology is overly focused on the noetic. Smith offers a counter-epistemology drawn from pentecostal spirituality that is narrative, affective, and embodied. Richard Davis and Paul Franks criticize this model and argue that it succumbs to story-relativism and arbitrariness. This article defends Smith against their critiques through three steps. First, it exposits Smith’s narrative, affective epistemology in order to identify areas that are relevant to their critiques. Second, it outlines and analyzes their critiques, reveals areas in which they fundamentally misunderstand Smith, and presents their commitment to epistemological objectivism. Finally, utilizing Alvin Plantinga’s externalist warrant model, it argues that Plantinga’s Reformed epistemology can assist Smith’s epistemology in consistent ways. If the following argument is successful, then Smith’s postmodern pentecostal epistemology can be reimagined as an externalist epistemology that overcomes the charges of relativism and arbitrariness.
K1 Justification
K1 warrant
K1 Relativism
K1 Externalism
K1 Alvin Plantinga
K1 James K.A. Smith
K1 pentecostal epistemology
K1 Postmodernism
DO 10.1163/15700747-bja10006