In his widely praised Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000)
Alvin Plantinga discussed in great depth and at great length the
question of the rationality, or sensibility, of Christian belief. In
this book Plantinga presents the same ideas in a briefer, more
accessible fashion.




Recognised worldwide as a leading Christian philosopher,
Plantinga probes what exactly is meant by the claim that religious
- and specifically Christian -
belief is irrational and
cannot sensibly be held. He argues that the criticisms of such
well-known atheists as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam
Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are completely wrong. Finally,
Plantinga addresses several potential "defeaters" to Christian
belief - pluralism, science, evil and suffering - and shows
how they fail to successfully defeat rational Christian belief.