Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
Christian Philosophy of Religion celebrates the work and influence of Stephen T. Davis over the past four decades in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and biblical studies. Davis’s work is characterized by the application of formal tools of philosophy for the understanding and articulation of Christian doctrine. His emphasis on argumentative clarity and logical rigor is reflected in the contributions by the sixteen internationally recognized scholars of Christian philosophical theology whose work is gathered here.
The volume addresses four areas of Christian thought. Contributors to the first section—Doctrine and Christian Belief—examine the Christian doctrines of the Redemption, the Incarnation, and the Resurrection. Those in the second section—The Nature of God and Christian Belief—probe the Christian belief that God is a trinity of persons, simple, immutable, self-sufficient, and independent of all things. In the third section—Reason and Christian Belief—contributors examine, in different ways, the role that reason, evidence, and argument plays in the formation of Christian belief. Essays in the fourth and final section—Scripture, Theology, and Christian Belief—address the relation between scripture and the problem of divine hiddenness, the problem of scriptural authority, and the relation between philosophical theology and fundamental theology. This diverse and wide-ranging collection will be of serious interest to anyone studying or working in the philosophy of religion, theology, scripture studies, or religious studies.
Contributors: Kelly James Clark, William Lane Craig, C. Stephen Evans, William Hasker, John Hick, Brian Leftow, Anselm K. Min, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, Alan G. Padgett, Alvin Plantinga, C. P. Ruloff, Marguerite Shuster, Eleonore Stump, Richard Swinburne, Charles Taliaferro, Dale Tuggy, Linda Zagzebski.
"Scholars and students will benefit greatly from this book, but Christian Philosophy of Religion will also serve as an excellent gateway to some of the major topics and controversies in current philosophy of religion and philosophical theology—both in its content as well as in methodology (a wide variety of approaches in philosophy, theology, and religious studies is exhibited in this collection)." —Journal of Analytic Theology
C. P. Ruloff is instructor of philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
Acknowledgments
Introduction by C.P. Ruloff
Part 1. DOCTRINE AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
- Deep Redemption by Charles Taliaferro
- The Coherence of the Chalcedonian Definition of the Incarnation by Richard Swinburne
- Against Materialist Christology by Brian Leftow
- Davis on the Resurrection of Jesus by John Hick
Part 2. THE NATURE OF GOD AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
5. How to Think about the Trinity by William Hasker
6. On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person by Dale Tuggy
7. Divine Simplicity by Eleonore Stump
8. God and Abstract Objects: The Theological Challenge of Platonism by William Lane Craig
9. Why Only an Immutable God Can Love, Relate, and Suffer by Anselm K. Min
Part 3. REASON AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
10. Faith and Testimony by Linda Zagzebski
11. Narrative and Natural Theology by Kelly James Clark
12. Moral Arguments for Theism and Divine Command Theories of Moral Obligation by C. Stephen Evans
13. Against Materialism by Alvin Plantinga
Part 4. SCRIP TURE, THEOLOGY, AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
14. The Hidden Hand of God by Marguerite Shuster
15. A True Word? Scripture, Authority, and the Question of Truth by Alan G. Padgett
16. The Philosophical Theology of Stephen Davis: Does It Coincide with Fundamental Theology? by Gerald O’Collins, SJ
Selected Publications of Stephen T. Davis
List of Contributors
Index