Naturalism

by William Lane Craig (Editor), J.P. Moreland (Editor)

Naturalism provides a rigorous analysis and critique of the major varieties of contemporary philosophical naturalism. The authors advocate the thesis that contemporary naturalism should be abandoned, in light of the serious objections raised against it. Contributors draw on a wide range of topics epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and agency, and natural theology.

Genres: Philosophy

304 pages, Hardcover

First published July 9, 2000

About the author

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He and his wife Jan have two grown children.

At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994.

He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals 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.

Reviews

[Jeremiah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! This book is like a finely sharpened blade in the hands of a master swordsman. Every essay is top-notch philosophical writing and argued with a rigor rarely (virtually never) achieved by Evangelical Christians. This book (and a some others) represent a massive turning point by Christian scholars in the field of philosophy that is revolutionizing the American academy. I haven't read every last essay, but I will and those that I have read are not worth missing if you have any interest in these issues.

If you think I'm exaggerating when I say that Anglo-American philosophy is undergoing a revolution, then read atheist Quentin Smith's article entitled, The Metaphilosophy of Naturalism (A heading of part of the article, which need not be read in whole, is titled: "THE DESECULARIZATION OF ACADEMIA THAT EVOLVED IN PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENTS SINCE THE LATE 1960s"). Smith is a very sophisticated atheist philosopher, and coming from him this is saying a lot.

[Jared Mindel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good, though some sections were better than others. I'd say Rea's and Koons's sections were the best of them all.