ABSTRACT
Reformed Epistemologists have argued that there are some religious beliefs which must be accepted on the basis of our experience of God, and that all other religious beliefs are dependent on these beliefs. Plantinga is, perhaps, the best-known exponent of Reformed Epistemology, developed in a number of books and papers over several decades, culminating in Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga cites the view of John Calvin that all human beings have a sensus divinitatis, a sense of divinity, and that it is human sinfulness which prevents people from being aware of this. According to Plantinga, the Reformers thought that belief in God can be taken as basic; a person is rational to believe in God without arguments, and without basing this belief on any other beliefs. Pargetter concludes that, for many people, theism may, indeed, be a basic belief which is grounded in experience.
