Alvin Plantinga

Alvin Plantinga (born November 15, 1932) is the John A. O'Brien Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and was previously the William Harry Jellema Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. A Reformed Christian philosopher, he is widely credited with leading the renaissance of analytic Christian philosophy in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Plantinga's most influential work develops the "free will defense" against the logical problem of evil; advances Reformed epistemology, on which belief in God can be properly basic; and culminates in his Warrant trilogy, where he argues that Christian belief, if true, is warranted. His later book Where the Conflict Really Lies argues that the genuine conflict is between naturalism and science, not between Christianity and science.