Philosophy and the Christian Worldview

Mark D. Linville is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Brenau University, Clayton State University, and Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, USA. Dr David Werther is a Philosophy Instructor and Faculty Associate in the Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

"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)

• Acknowledgments; Contributors; Foreword by Paul J. Griffiths; Religion and Worldview Assessment; 1. Keith E. Yandell, "Is Philosophy of Religion Possible?"; 2. Harold Netland, "Religious Pluralism as an Explanation for Religious Diversity"; 3. Paul Copan, "The Naturalists are Declaring the Glory of God: Discovering Natural Theology in the Unlikeliest of Places". Religion and Epistemology; 4. Matthew Davidson and Gordon Barnes, "Internalism and Properly Basic Belief"; 5. Charles Taliaferro, "In Defense of the Numinous"; 6. William Wainwright, "Theistic Mystical Experiences, Enlightenment Experiences, & Ineffability"; 7. Terence Penelhum, "Hume and Religion: Keith Yandell's Assessments"; Religion and Morality; 8. Mark D. Linville, "Why Bertrand Russell Was Not a Moral Realist, Either"; 9. Michael Peterson, "The Necessity of Gratuitous Evil"; 10. Paul Reasoner, "Confucian Sincerity and the Imago Dei"; 11. Noel Hendrickson, "Free Will and Moral Responsibility: The Explanatory Approach"; Religion and Metaphysics; 12. William Hasker, "Jaegwon Kim's Rejection of Substance Dualism"; 13. David Yandell, "Plain vs. Anselmian Theism"; 14. David Werther, "Incarnation and Temptation"; Bibliography; Index.