2 January 10: Prolegomena I: Introduction and overview of the course; Lecture: Analytic Philosophy and Theology; Religious Belief and Reason. Reading: Alvin Plantinga, “Prologue: Advice to Christian Philosophers,” in Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy, ed. Michael D. Beaty (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990); Nicholas Wolterstorff, “How Philosophical Theology Became Possible within the Analytic Tradition,” in Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology, eds. Oliver D. Crisp and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 155-170. David K. Clark, “Faith and Foundationalism,” in The Rationality of Theism, eds. Paul Copan and Paul K. Moser (London: Routledge, 2003), 35-53; Evan Fales interview re: “Reformed Epistemology”: http://ia600508.us.archive.org/4/items/ConversationsFromThePaleBlueDot006- EvanFales/006-EvanFales.mp3 Optional: William P. Alston, “Christian Experience and Christian Belief,” in Faith and Rationality, Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, eds. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983), 103-134; A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, 2nd ed. (New York: Dover Publications, 1952), 5-26, 33-45. Alvin Plantinga, “Reason and Belief in God,” Faith and Rationality (1983), 16-93; Austin Farrer, “A Starting-point for the Philosophical Examination of Theological Beliefs,” in Faith and Logic: Oxford Essays in Philosophical Theology, ed. Basil Mitchell (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1958). Jan. 17: Prolegomena II: Religious Belief and Reason; Analytic Reflection and Theology Reading:; William Abraham, “Systematic Theology as Analytic Theology,” in Analytic Theology: New Essays in the Philosophy of Theology, eds. Oliver D. Crisp and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 54-69; Sarah Coakley, “Feminism and Analytic Philosophy of Religion,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion, ed. William Wainwright (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 494-525; Alan Donagan, “Can Anybody in a Post-Christian Culture Rationally Believe the Nicene Creed?” in Reflections on Philosophy and Religion, ed. By Anthony N. Perovich Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 15-34; Paul K. Moser, “Cognitive Inspiration and Knowledge of God,” in The Rationality of Theism (2003), 55-71. Optional: Oliver D. Crisp, "On Analytic Theology," in Analytic Theology (2009), 33-53. William Hasker, “Analytic Philosophy of Religion,” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology (1987), 421-446. Jan. 24: Systematic Theology Workshop I: Aquinas and Barth on Analytic Theology; Reflections on Divine Being and Nature. Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I.1 (http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1001.htm); Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics I.1, eds. Bromiley and Torrence (London: T&T Clark International, 2004), Introduction (pp.3-44). Cont’d, p. 3 Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, preface, chs. I- III. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/anselm/basic works.iii.i.html 3 Keith Yandell, “Ontological Arguments, Metaphysical Identity, and the Trinity,” Philosophia Christi, ed. Craig J. Hazen. Series 2, vol. 1, number 1 (1999); Steven Davis, “The Ontological Argument,” in The Rationality of Theism, eds. Paul Copan and Paul K. Moser (London: Routledge, 2003), 93-111. Merold Westphal, Overcoming Onto-Theology (Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2001), 1-28. Jan. 31: Reflections on the Trinity: Persons, Substance, and (Tri-)Unity Reading: William P. Alston, “Substance and the Trinity,” in The Trinity (1999), 179-201 Brower, Jeffrey E. and Michael C. Rea, “Material Constitution and the Trinity,” in Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Volume 1, ed. Michael Rea (Oxford University Press, 2009), 127-150. Bruce Marshall, “The Unity of the Triune God,” The Thomist, 74.1 (January 2010): 1-32; J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. “The Trinity,” in Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Volume 1, ed. Michael Rea (Oxford University Press, 2009), 21-44; Brian Leftow, “Anti Social Trinitarianism.,” in The Trinity, eds. Stephen Davis, Daniel Kendall SJ, and Gerald O’Collins SJ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 203- 250; Sarah Coakley, “‘Persons’ in the ‘Social’ Doctrine of the Trinity: A Critique of Current Analytic Discussion,” in The Trinity (1999) 123-144. Peter Forrest, “Divine Fission: A New Way of Understanding Social Trinitarianism,” in Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, Volume 1, ed. Michael Rea (Oxford University Press, 2009), 44-60. Optional: Peter Van Inwagen, “Not by Confusion of Substance, but by Unity of Person,” in Reason and the Christian Religion, Essays in Honor of Richard Swinburne, ed. Alan Padgett (Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1994), 201-226. C.J.F. Williams, “Neither Confounding the Persons nor Dividing the Substance,” in Reason and the Christian Religion, Essays in Honor of Richard Swinburne, ed. Alan Padgett (Oxford; Clarendon Press, 1994), 227-244. Jurgen Moltmann, The Trinity and the Kingdom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1981), 129- 190. Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology, v. 1 (Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans, 1998), 259-336. Feb. 7: Divine Attributes I: Necessity and Simplicity Reading: Robert M. Adams, “Divine Necessity,” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology, ed. Robert Adams, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 209-220; Brian Leftow, “Necessity,” in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2010), 15-30. Alvin Plantinga, “Necessary Being,” in The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader, ed. James F. Sennett (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 214-224. ________. Does God Have a Nature (Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, 1980), part II: “Divine Simplicity,” (p. 26-61). Jeffrey E. Brower, "Simplicity and Aseity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, eds. Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 105-128; Cont’d p. 4 Brian Davies, “Simplicity,” in The Cambridge Companion to Christian Philosophical Theology, 31-45 4 Eleonore Stump, “Simplicity,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, eds. Philip L. Quinn and Charles Taliaferro (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Company, 1999), 250- 256; Optional: William E. Mann, “Necessity,” in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. Philip Quinn and Charles E. Taliaferro (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 264-270; Feb. 14: Divine Attributes II: God, Time, and Space Reading: William Lane Craig, “Divine Eternity,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, eds. Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 145-166; I.M. Crombie, “Eternity and Omnitemporality,” in The Rationality of Religious Belief , eds. William J. Abraham and Steven W. Holtzer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 169-188. Eleonore Stump, Aquinas (London: Routledge Press, 2005), ch. 4: “God’s Eternity” (131-158). Nicholas Wolterstorff, “God is Everlasting,” in Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings 2nd eds. Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David Basinger (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 139-148. Hud Hudson, “Omnipresence.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, eds. Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 199- 216; Thomas D. Senor, “The Real Presence of an Eternal God.” In Keving Timpe, ed., Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump, New York: Routledge, 2009, 39- 59. Edward R. Wierenga, “Omnipresence.” In The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. Philip Quinn and Charles E. Taliaferro (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 286-290. Optional: Edward R. Wierenga, The Nature of God (Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1989), ch. 6: “Eternity, Timelessness and Immutability,” p. 166-201. Feb. 21: Divine Attributes IV: God, Power, and Divine Action Reading: Brian Leftow, “Omnipotence,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, eds. Thomas P. Flint and Michael C. Rea (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 167-198. Charles Taliaferro, “Divine Power,” in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1998); William L. Rowe, “Divine Power, Goodness, and Knowledge,” in The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology, ed. Robert Adams (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 15-34. William P. Alston, “Divine and Human Action,” in Divine Nature and Human Language (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), 81-102; Charles Taliaferro, “Incorporeality,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. Philip Quinn and Charles E. Taliaferro (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 271-278; Stump, Eleonore. “Petitionary Prayer,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (1997), 577-583; Thomas Tracy, “Divine Action,” in A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (1997), 299- 305. Feb. 28: Divine Attributes V: Divine Knowledge and the Future; Foreknowledge and Freedom 5 Reading: Alan Rhoda, “The Philosophical Case for Open Theism,” Philosophia 35 (2007), 301-311; Michael Robinson, “Why Divine Foreknowledge?” Religious Studies 36 (2000), 251-275; Peter Van Inwagen, “What Does an Omniscient Being Know about the Future,” in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 1, ed. Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Oxford: Oxford University Pressm 2009), 216-230. Edward Wierenga, “Omniscience,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology, ed. Thomas P. Flint (Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2009), p.129-144. Linda Zagzebski, “Does Libertarian Freedom Require Alternative Possibilities?” Philosophical Perspectives 14 (2000), 231-248; ________. “Recent Work on Divine Foreknowledge