Philosophical foundations for a Christian worldview / J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Craig, William Lane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (702 pages) ; illustrations.

Edition:

Second Edition.

Place of Publication:

Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2017].

Summary:

* Winner of a 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Award * Winner of an Award of Excellence in the 2003 Chicago Book Clinic * 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 foundation stones for constructing any kind of worldview. Now updated and expanded in this second edition, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig offers 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. This second edition now includes including enhanced arguments, updated bibliographies, and new chapters on atonement and the mind-body problem.

Contents:

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. What is philosophy?

2. Argumentation and logic

PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY

3. Knowledge and rationality

4. The problem of skepticism

5. The structure of justification

6. Theories of truth and postmodernism

7. Religious epistemology

PART III: METAPHYSICS

8. What is metaphysics?

9. General ontology: Existence, identity, and reductionism

10. General ontology: Two categories, property and substance

11. The mind-body problem IA: Consciousness and property dualism or mere-property dualism

12. The mind-body problem IB: Physicalist alternatives to property dualism or mere-property dualism

13. The mind-body problem IIA: Arguments regarding and versions of substance dualism

14. The mind-body problem IIB: The main physicalist alternatives to substance dualism

15. Free will and determinism

16. Personal identity and life after death

PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

17. Scientific methodology

18. The realism-antirealism debate

19. Philosophy and the integration of science and theology

20. Philosophy of time and space

PART V: ETHICS

21. Ethics, morality, and metaethics

22. Ethical relativism and absolutism

23. Normative ethical theories: Egoism and utilitarianism

24. Normative ethical theories: Deontological and virtue ethics

PART VI: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY

25. The existence of God I

26. The existence of God II

27. The coherence of theism I

28. The coherence of theism II

29. The problem of evil

30. Creation, providence, and miracle

31. Christian doctrine I: The Trinity

32. Christian doctrine II: The incarnation

33. Christian doctrine III: Atonement

34. Christian doctrine IV: Christian particularism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780830889174

0830889175