Christian Philosophy A-Z

by Daniel J. Hill, Randal D. Rauser

A handy guide to the major figures and issues in Christian philosophy from Augustine to the present.This volume covers a broad historical sweep and takes into account those non-Christian philosophers that have had a great impact on the Christian tradition. However, it concentrates on the issues that perplex Christian philosophers as they seek to think through their faith in a philosophical way and their philosophical beliefs in the light of their faith. Examples of the topics discussed are the question of whether and how God knows the future, whether we actually know that God exists, and what Athens has to do with Jerusalem. The leaders of the recent revival of Christian analytic philosophy, especially Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff, William Alston, and Robert Adams are also included.This book will be of interest to those studying Christian philosophy and to Christians seeking to think philosophically about their faith.

Genres: Philosophy

264 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2006

Reviews

[Craine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book serves as a wonderful reference guide for looking up terms with ease related to Christian philosophy. What I think is done especially well in this book is the ability to distill important ideas, very often relegated to the minuscule margins of pages, as well as providing engaging commentary in the process. Taking into account the fact that the book obviously attempts to position itself as an easy at hand reference book and not a large authoritative lexical reference book, it does none the less contain certain important omissions such as a separated entry of presuppositionalism (it does however mention Cornelius van Til, but would have done well to expand more upon this variant of Christian apologetics). However, despite this it does well to cover all lot of ground in both its listing of key relevant people and concepts/terms.

In all this is a very welcome addition in terms of getting up to speed with Christian philosophy in reference to historical developments , merits as well as that of providing the reader with both lucid commentaries as well as well thought out definitions.

(Note: I don't like the star rating and as such I only rate books based upon one star or five stars corresponding to the in my opinion preferable rating system of thumbs up/down. This later rating system increases in my humble opinion the degree to which the reader is likely to engage with a review instead of merely glancing at the number of stars of a given book.)