Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Reason within the Bounds of Religion offer steps to help remedy this problem. Plantinga has advised Christian academics—philosophers in particular—to take certain biblical doctrines as assumptions in their philosophic work. Similarly, Wolterstorff has argued that the religious commitments of Christian scholars, including philosophers, ought to function as “control beliefs” in their devising and weighing of theories.13 Plantinga’s and Wolterstorff’s recommendations are courageous