Recently Terence Penelhum has suggested, in God and Skepticism, that Alvin Plantinga's critique of classical foundationalism is a version of fideism. It is a fideism that exemplifies itself in what Penelhum refers to as a "permissive parity argument." Plantinga, however, rejects any label of fideism, whether it be of an extreme or moderate variety.1 He maintains that his approach to religious epistemology demonstrates that theistic belief is properly basic and among the "deliverances of reason." Plantinga writes,