The merging of presuppositionalism and evidentialism towards a new route in defense of the Christian faith: An epistemological hermeneutics

• Main Author: Carag, Anacleto S.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2001
• Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Hermeneutics; Epistemology; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/845
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study tries to establish the common ground by virtue of which both presuppositionalism and evidentialism to merge as a consequence, envision a new route in defense of the Christian faith. It includes and highlights its difference from that of the two theories. The issues between presuppositionalism and evidentialism are reconcilable. There is a common ground between them, which makes them reconcilable, and this epistemological common ground is called ontic, the being that is the ground of all beings. This common ground constitutes the present study's symbiotic theory and that this symbiotic theory paves a new route in defense of the Christian faith. To go about this, the present study uses the Gadamerian hermeneutics, fusion of the two horizons which led to sharing presuppositions that allow fresh understanding and avoid a premature repudiation of ideas. Thus the study epistemologically speaking is an epistemological hermeneutics. It also falls under rubrics of meta-apologetics.