Debating Christian theism / edited by J.P Moreland, Chad Meister, and Khaldoun A. Sweis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moreland, J. P. (James Porter), 1948-

Meister, Chad V., 1965-

Sweis, Khaldoun A., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal.

Apologetics.

Theism.

God--Proof.

God.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (573 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This volume offers groundbreaking dialogue by many of the most prominent scholars in the field in a definitive treatment of central issues in theism and Christian faith.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

PART ONE: Debates About God's Existence

A Cosmological Argument

1. The Kalam Argument

2. Doubts About the Kalam Argument

A Teleological Argument

3. The Fine-Tuning Evidence is Convincing

4. The Universe Shows No Evidence for Design

An Ontological Argument

5. A Modal Version of the Ontological Argument

6. Lowe on "The Ontological Argument"

A Moral Argument

7. Ethics Needs God

8. The Failure of Moral Arguments

An Argument from Consciousness

9. The Argument from Consciousness

10. Consciousness, Theism, and Naturalism

The Coherence of Theism: Part 1

11. Problems with Omnipotence

12. Coherence of Divine Power

The Coherence of Theism: Part 2

13. Problems with Omniscience

14. The Coherence of Omniscience

The Problem of Evil

15. Evil as Evidence Against God

16. God and Evil

Evolution and Belief in God

17. Bayes and the Evolution of Religious Belief

18. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief

The Nature of Human Beings

19. Human Persons are Material and Immaterial (Body and Soul)

20. Human Persons are Material Only

PART TWO: Debates About Specific Christian Beliefs

Miracles and Christian Theism

21. Christianity and Miracles

22. It is Not Reasonable to Believe in Miracles

Science and Christian Faith

23. Science is at Odds with Christianity

24. Science is not at Odds with Christianity

The Doctrine of the Trinity

25. The Doctrine of the Trinity is Coherent

26. The Trinity is Incoherent

The Atonement

27. Responsibility, Atonement, and Forgiveness

28. Problems with the Doctrine of Atonement

The Incarnation

29. An Anselmian Defense of the Incarnation

30. The Incarnation Doctrine is Incoherent and Unlikely.

The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

31. The Gospels Are Reliable as Historically Factual Accounts

32. The Gospels Are Reliable as Memory and Testimony

The Historical Jesus

33. Is the Christ of Faith also the Jesus of History?

34. The Christ of Faith is the Jesus of History

The Resurrection of Jesus

35. Jesus Did Rise from the Dead

36. The Resurrection Probably Did Not Happen

Only One Way to God?

37. Jesus is the Only Way to God

38. There Are Many Ways to God

Heaven and Hell

39. It is Reasonable to Believe in Heaven and Hell

40. Heaven and Hell

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-998143-4

OCLC:

852759348