“A third complication is that the same tradition that held pride to be a sin and humility a virtue has often been dominated by whites who have preached humility to blacks, by men who have preached submissiveness to women, by rigid and unimaginative persons who have regarded every creative impulse, every struggle for personal dignity, as a shameful show of arrogance. In the eyes of such persons, anyone who wanted mere self-respect was cheeky. What is troubling is that the advocates of humility and submissiveness have often had a personal stake in the popularity of these virtues and have therefore made adopting them look like the project of a special-interest group. In”
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Cornelius "Neal" Plantinga, Jr. is the president of Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he is professor of systematic theology. He is a preacher, speaker,and award-winning author.
He was born in Jamestown, ND and was ordained in 1971. He is the brother of philosopher Alvin Plantinga,music historian Leon Plantinga, and former CBS news producer Terry Plantinga. He is the uncle of theologian Amy Plantinga Pauw. Plantinga married Kathleen Talsma in 1967 and has two children with her.