Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

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InterVarsity Press, Sep 20, 2009 - Religion - 673 pages
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  • What is real?
  • What is truth?
  • What can we know?
  • What should we believe?
  • What should we do and why?
  • Is there a God?
  • Can we know him?
  • Do Christian doctrines make sense?
  • Can we believe in God in the face of evil?
These are fundamental questions that any thinking person wants answers to. These are questions that philosophy addresses. And the answers we give to these kinds of questions serve as the the foundation stones for consrtucting any kind of worldview. In Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig offer a comprehensive introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective. In their broad sweep they seek to introduce readers to the principal subdisciplines of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics and philosophy of religion. They do so with characteristic clarity and incisiveness. Arguments are clearly outlined, and rival theories are presented with fairness and accuracy. Philosophy, they contend, aids Christians in the tasks of apologetics, polemics and systematic theology. It reflects our having been made in the image of God, helps us to extend biblical teaching into areas not expressly addressed in Scripture, facilitates the spiritual discipline of study, enhances the boldness and self-image of the Christian community, and is requisite to the essential task of integrating faith and learning. Here is a lively and thorough introduction to philosophy for all who want to know reality.
 

Contents

An Invitation to Christian Philosophy
1
PART I
9
1 What Is Philosophy?
11
2 Argumentation and Logic
28
PART II
69
3 Knowledge and Rationality
71
4 The Problem of Skepticism
91
5 The Structure of Justification
110
18 Philosophy of Time and Space
368
PART V
391
19 Ethics Morality and Metaethics
393
20 Ethical Relativism and Absolutism
406
Egoism and Utilitarianism
425
Deontological and Virtue Ethics
446
PART VI
461
23 The Existence of God I
463

6 Theories of Truth and Postmodernism
130
7 Religious Epistemology
154
PART III
171
8 What Is Metaphysics?
173
9 General Ontology
187
10 General Ontology
204
Dualism
228
Alternatives to Dualism
247
13 Free Will and Determinism
267
14 Personal Identity and Life After Death
285
PART IV
305
15 Scientific Methodology
307
16 The RealismAntirealism Debate
326
17 Philosophy and the Integration of Science and Theology
346
24 The Existence of God II
482
25 The Coherence of Theism I
501
26 The Coherence of Theism II
517
27 The Problem of Evil
536
28 Creation Providence and Miracle
554
29 Christian Doctrines I
575
30 Christian Doctrines II
597
31 Christian Doctrines III
615
Suggestions for Further Reading
627
Name Index
640
Subject Index
642
Scripture Index
654
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655
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J. P. Moreland (PhD, University of Southern California) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is the author or coauthor of over thirty-five books, including Kingdom Triangle, Scaling the Secular City, Consciousness and the Existence of God, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, Love Your God With All Your Mind, The God Question, and Body and Soul. In his distinguished career, Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 175 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ for ten years. The founder and director of Eidos Christian Center, he also previously served as a bioethicist for PersonaCare Nursing Homes, Inc. headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Moreland's ideas have been covered by both popular religious and non-religious outlets, including the New Scientist, Christianity Today, PBS's "Closer to Truth," and WORLD magazine.

William Lane Craig (PhD, philosophy, University of Birmingham; ThD, systematic theology, University of Munich) is Research Professor of Philosophy at T albot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is also president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Craig has published articles in philosophical and theological journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Modern Theology and Religious Studies. He has written or cowritten more than twenty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology and God, Time and Eternity.

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