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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 philosophy answers. And the answers we give to these kinds of questions serve as the foundation for constructing our worldview.

In this updated and expanded 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. With characteristic clarity and incisiveness, Moreland and Craig outline clear arguments and present rival theories with fairness and accuracy. They introduce readers to the principal subdisciplines of philosophy including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics, and philosophy of religion.

In this book, Moreland and Craig show how philosophy



- aids Christians in the tasks of apologetics, polemics, and systematic theology;

- reflects that we are 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.



This textbook is a lively and thorough introduction to philosophy for all who want to understand reality. This second edition includes enhanced arguments, updated bibliographies, and new chapters on atonement and the mind-body problem. With Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, get a clear and comprehensive guide for understanding philosophy from a Christian worldview.



William Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools as one of the fifty most influential living philosophers. Craig has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; God, Time, and Eternity; and God and Abstract Objects, as well as over 150 articles in professional publications of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.







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 has written or contributed to over ninety-five books, including The God Conversation,Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, and Love Your God With All Your Mind. Throughout his career Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 200 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) for ten years. He was selected in August 2016 by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.



Preface

Outline of the Book

An Invitation to Christian Philosophy



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 Part IA: Consciousness and Property Dualism or Mere-Property Dualism

12 The Mind-Body Problem Part IB: Alternatives to Property Dualism or Mere-Property Dualism

13 The Mind-Body Problem Part IIA: Arguments Regarding and Versions of Substance Dualism

14 The Mind-Body Problem Part 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 TheismI

28 The Coherence of Theism II

29 The Problem of Evil

30 Creation, Providence, and Miracle

31 Christian Doctrines I: The Trinity

32 Christian Doctrines II: The Incarnation

33 Christian Doctrines III: Atonement

34Christian Doctrines IV: Christian Particularism



Suggestions for Further Reading

Name Index

Subject Index

Scripture Index