Philosophy and the Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment and Development
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Philosophy and the Christian Worldview is a collection of new essays written by fifteen philosophers of religion. Bringing together some of the leading lights in current academic philosophy of religion, including William Hasker, Charles Taliaferro and Keith Yandell, it offers a fresh perspective on four major areas of discussion: Religion and Epistemology; Religion and Morality; Religion and Metaphysics; and Religion and Worldview Assessment.
United by the argument that the core claims of religion have metaphysical, epistemic and moral entailments, these essays represent a state of the art discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion.
New perspectives on core questions in contemporary philosophy of religion.
Presents new research on religion and metaphysics, religion and morality, and religion and epistemology.
Includes contributions from leading philosophers, including William Hasker, William Rowe and William Wainwright.
Forward by Paul J. Griffiths
Introduction
1. Is Philosophy of Religion Possible?
2. Religious Pluralism as an Explanation for Religious Diversity
3. The Naturalists are Declaring the Glory of God: Discovering Natural Theology in the Unlikeliest Places
4. Internalism and Properly Basic Belief
5. In Defense of the Numinous
6. Theistic Mystical Experiences, Enlightenment Experiences, & Ineffability
7. Hume and Religion: Keith Yandell's Assessments
8. Why Bertrand Russell Was Not a Moral Realist, Either
9. Christian Theism and the Evidential Argument from Evil
10. Confucian Sincerity and the Imago Dei
11. Jaegwon Kim's Rejection of Substance Dualism
12. Free Will: The Explanatory Approach
13. Freedom, Temptation and Incarnation
"Philosophy and the Christian Worldview is an exciting, rigorous, fresh treatment of a number of important issues that surface in the act of assessing the merits of a Christian worldview. What impressed me most about the book is its unity and thematic development. While the book included a number of different authors, they have managed to write as one. The book moves carefully from the issue of religious pluralism and worldview assessment, to epistemic topics relevant to the topics surfaced in part one. Given these epistemic considerations, we are then presented with discussions of the relationship between religion and morality and religion and central metaphysical concerns. This book will make an excellent text for a course in philosophy of religion." -- JP Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University, USA and author of Consciousness and the Existence of God (Routledge, 2008)
"The editors have aptly assembled an impressive array of Christian philosophers to honor Professor Keith Yandell's remarkable contributions to the philosophy of religion. The contributors, including Yandell himself, rigorously assess various truth claims pertaining to religious beliefs, and in so doing, provide some significant rational support for the truth of the Christian worldview." - Douglas Groothius, Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary and the author of Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith.
- Title: Philosophy and the Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment and Development
- Authors: David Werther, Mark Linville
- Publisher: Continuum
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781441104762, 9781623567675, 162356767X, 1441104763
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441104762
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T02:27:37Z
David Werther is the Director of the Independent Learning Program at the University of Wisconsin-Extension, USA.