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In recent years the Christian faith has been challenged by
skeptics, including the New Atheists, who claim that belief in God
is simply not reasonable. Here prominent Christian philosopher C.
Stephen Evans offers a fresh, contemporary, and nuanced response.
He makes the case for belief in a personal God through an
exploration of natural "signs," which open our minds to theistic
possibilities and foster belief in the Christian revelation. Evans
then discusses why God's self-revelation is both authoritative and
authentic. This sophisticated yet accessible book provides a clear
account of the evidence for Christian faith, concluding that it
still makes sense to believe.
Kierkegaard and Christian Faith responds directly to the perennial
and problematic concern of how to read Kierkegaard. Specifically,
this volume presses the question of whether the existentialist
philosopher, who so troubled the waters of nineteenth-century
Danish Christendom, is a "Christian thinker for our time." The
chapters crisscross the disciplines of philosophy, theology,
literature, and ethics, and are as rich in argument as they are
diverse in style. Collectively the chapters demonstrate a
principled agreement that Kierkegaard continues to be relevant,
even imperative. Kierkegaard and Christian Faith reveals just how
Kierkegaard's work both defines and reconfigures what is meant by
"Christian thinker." Following an autobiographical prologue by
Kathleen Norris, this volume gathers the chapters in pairs around
crucial themes: the use of philosophy (Merold Westphal and C.
Stephen Evans), revelation and authority (Richard Bauckham and Paul
J. Griffiths), Christian character (Sylvia Walsh and Ralph C.
Wood), the relationship between the church and the world (Jennifer
A. Herdt and Paul Martens), and moral questions of forgiveness and
love (Simon D. Podmore and Cyril O'Regan). The volume underscores
the centrality of Christianity to Kierkegaard's life and thought,
and rightly positions Kierkegaard as a profound challenge to
Christianity as it is understood and practiced today.
With over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in
1982, Steve Evans's Philosophy of Religion has served many
generations of students as a classic introduction to the philosophy
of religion from a Christian perspective. Over the years the
philosophical landscape has changed, and in this new edition Zach
Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and
information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity
that made the first edition so appreciated. New material on divine
foreknowledge and human freedom has been added as well as on
Reformed epistemology. The discussions on science now cover new
developments from cognitive psychology and naturalism as well as on
the fine-tuning of the cosmos. The chapter on faith and reason has
been expanded to include consideration of evidentialism. The
problem of evil now forms its own new chapter and adds a discussion
of the problem of hell. The standard features remain: a survey of
the field, an examination of classical arguments for God's
existence, and an exploration of contemporary challenges to theism
from the social sciences and philosophy as well as the natural
sciences. The meaning and significance of personal religious
experience, revelation and miracles--all within the realm of
contemporary religious pluralism--are likewise investigated. A
classic introduction thoroughly updated and refreshed for today's
student.
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The Bible and the University (Paperback)
Craig Bartholomew, Anthony C. Thiselton; Edited by David Lyle Jeffrey, C. Stephen Evans
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It is well known that the Western university gradually evolved from
the monastic stadium via the cathedral schools of the twelfth
century to become the remarkably vigorous and interdisciplinary
European institutions of higher learning that transformed Christian
intellectual culture in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It
is equally well known that subsequent disciplinary developments in
higher education, including the founding and flourishing of many of
the most prestigious of North American universities, owe equally to
the Protestant and perhaps particularly Calvinist influence. But
that the secularized modern university that descended from these
developments is now in something of an identity crisis is becoming
widely - and often awkwardly - apparent. The reason most often
given for the crisis is our general failure to produce a morally or
spiritually persuasive substitute for the authority that
undergirded the intellectual culture of our predecessors. This is
frequently also a reason for the discomfort many experience in
trying to address the problem, for it requires an acknowledgement,
at least, that the secularization hypothesis has proven inadequate
as a basis for the sustaining of coherence and general
intelligibility in the university curriculum. Nowhere is this more
apparent than in the disciplines of biblical studies and theology,
which once were the anchor or common point of reference for
theological thought, but which are now both marginalized in the
curriculum and internally divided as to meaning and purpose, even
where the Church itself is concerned. In this final volume of the
Scripture and Hermeneutic Series, a group of distinguished scholars
have sought to understand the role of the Bible in relation to the
disciplines in a fresh way. Offered in a spirit of humility and
experimentally, the essays here consider the historic role of the
Bible in the university, the status of theological reflection
regarding Scripture among the disciplines today, the special role
of Scripture in the development of law, the humanities and social
sciences, and finally, the way the Bible speaks to issues of
academic freedom, intellectual tolerance, and religious liberty.
Contributors Include: Dallas Willard William Abraham Al Wolters
Scott Hahn Glenn Olsen Robert C. Roberts Byron Johnson Robert
Cochran, Jr. David I. Smith John Sullivan Robert Lundin C. Stephen
Evans David Lyle Jeffrey
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young boy (José Luis Gutiérrez) playing golf on the beaches of his
native Spain with a broken 3-iron to a world number one and leading
figure in the sport. Told through dramatic re-enactments and
archive footage, the story follows Seve as he overcomes every
hurdle in his journey towards success.
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This major reference work is offered as a resource for today's
church in its life, worship, and mission to the world. It aims to
enable readers not merely to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ
against attack, but also to commend it positively. The Dictionary
addresses the main intellectual objections to the Christian faith,
and puts the case in its favour from a wide variety of
perspectives. But since apologetics is the task of the whole
person, the contributors also consider how the truth of the
church's message can be demonstrated within the diverse elements of
contemporary culture. Christian students and scholars in all major
disciplines, pastors and lay leaders of local churches, and anyone
actively involved in evangelism or social outreach will be
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in word and deed.
In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects
poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's
command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of
faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously
justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham
justified in remaining silent? In pondering these questions,
Kierkegaard presents faith as a paradox that cannot be understood
by reason and conventional morality, and he challenges the
universalist ethics and immanental philosophy of modern German
idealism, especially as represented by Kant and Hegel. This volume,
first published in 2006, presents the first new English translation
for twenty years, by Sylvia Walsh, together with an introduction by
C. Stephen Evans which examines the ethical and religious issues
raised by the text.
C. Sephen Evans has written a pointed and personal book directed to
those who want to have faith but whose thinking has been obscured
by the static of prevailing philosophies, illuminating the
attraction and reasonableness of Christianity.
For philosophers, the pursuit of truth travels on precise
definitions. For Christian apologists, the defense of the faith is
founded on the defining Word. And for beginning students of either
discipline, the difference between success and frustration begins
with understanding the terms and ideas and identifying the thinkers
and movements. The Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics &
Philosophy of Religion is designed to be a companion to your study
of these two related disciplines. Among its 300 entries are terms,
from a posteriori to worldview apologists, from Abelard to Van Til
philosophers of religion, from Alston to Wolterstorff movements,
from analytic philosophy to voluntarism apologetic arguments, from
the cosmological to the wager theologies, from Arminianism to
Zoroastrianism Here is an affordable and easily accessible "help
key" for your readings, lectures, writing assignments and exam
preparation. It's a must-have study aid for any student who expects
to cogitate on coherentism or ruminate on Ricouer.
Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self represents a rich collection of
studies that allow Soren Kierkegaard to speak directly to the
questions of contemporary readers. Evans analyzes Kierkegaard as a
philosopher, his perspectives on faith, reason, and epistemology,
ethics, and his view of the self. Evans makes a strong case that
Kierkegaard has something crucial to say to the Christian church as
a philosopher and something equally crucial to say to the
philosophical world as a Christian believer.
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