VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2 2006
PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION CRAIG J. HAZEN 215
BOOK SYMPOSIUM ON LOGIC AND THEISM
Cumulative Argument, Sustaining Causes, CHARLES TALIAFERRO 219 and Miracles Sobel on Arguments from Design RICHARD SWINBURNE 227 Sobel on Gödel’s Ontological Proof ROBERT C. KOONS 235 To My Critics with Appreciation: Responses JORDAN HOWARD SOBEL 249 to Taliaferro, Swinburne, and Koons
ARTICLES
Nonfoundationalism, Truth, and the Knowledge of God JOHN R. FRANKE 295 Two Areas of Reflection and Dialogue with John Franke J. P. MORELAND 305 Divine Narcissism? A Further Defense of PAUL COPAN 313 God’s Humility Everlasting Punishment and the Goodness of God: STEPHEN R. HOLMES 327 Some Contributions to the Current Debate from Jonathan Edwards The Trouble with Quiescence: Stump on Grace C. P. RAGLAND 343 and Freedom Can God Satisfy a Bookworm? A Reassessment of the PAUL KABAY 363 Concept of Infinity Presupposed by the Kalam Cosmological Argument Could the Extended Aquinas/Calvin Model Defeat ERIK BALDWIN 383 Basic Christian Belief ? Jesus’s Uses of Language and Their Contemporary GORDON R. LEWIS 401 Significance The Irrelevance of Thomas Crisp and Ted Warfield’s SEAN CHOI 421 Desiderata and Proposed Counterexamples to Principle Beta
NOTES
Epistemizing the World: A Reply to MARK MCLEOD-HARRISON 439 Gregory E. Ganssle Real Problems with Irrealism: A Response GREGORY E. GANSSLE 453 to Mark McLeod-Harrison Rejoinder to Ganssle’s “Real Problems MARK MCLEOD-HARRISON 459 with Irrealism” Bruce Russell’s Analogy and the Problem of Evil DAVID BAGGETT 463 Conceptually Adequate Freedom: A Review Essay of DANIEL SPEAK 475 Randolph Clarke’s Libertarian Accounts of Free Will Sobel’s Acid Bath for Theism: A Review Essay of WILLIAM LANE CRAIG 481 Jordan Howard Sobel’s Logic and Theism
BOOK REVIEWS
William Hasker, Providence, Evil and THOMAS P. FLINT 493 the Openness of God William Rowe, Can God Be Free? SHANNON MURPHY 497 AND KEVIN TIMPE Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell, eds., PAUL MOSER 501 God and the Ethics of Belief Brian Ellis, The Philosophy of Nature: KEN HOCHSTETTER 503 A Guide to the New Essentialism Gary R. Habermas and Antony G. N. Flew, DOUGLAS GROOTHIUS 508 Resurrected? An Atheist and a Theist Debate Francis J. Beckwith, William Lane Craig, and GREGORY E. GANSSLE 510 J. P. Moreland, eds., To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview Alister McGrath, Dawkins’God: Genes, PAUL PARDI 514 Memes, and the Meaning of Life
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 517 EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION 215
Editor’s Introduction
You can probably tell by the size of the issue (over three hundred pages) that we are getting a lot of excellent submissions to the journal. Occasionally we try to keep costs under control by keeping the page count around two hundred. But this time the accountants are not ruling the day; there is too much good material to print. This isn’t a theme issue. Indeed, the topics run far and wide. But we do start out with a sizzling book symposium on Howard Sobel’s tremendous work, Logic and Theism. My colleague at Biola University, Doug Geivett, organized a panel discussion on this book at the Pacific Division of the APA in the spring of 2005. The participants then agreed to put their remarks in writing for the special exchange we present here. I am grateful to all of them for taking time to rework their comments for Philosophia Christi. Before reading the symposium, though, you may want to first digest William Lane Craig’s review essay on the book (go to page 481). The title of Craig’s essay, “Sobel’s Acid Bath for Theism,” would win at least honor- able mention in the provocative title category if we offered such awards. We are already busy putting together the next issue, and it looks to be another groundbreaking collection of essays and reviews. We will go to the mat with the accountants to print all the pages necessary to tell the whole philosophical story. The accountants have been working out at the gym, so we don’t yet know who will win. Keep your subscriptions current to find out. Craig J. Hazen Biola University