Philosophy of the Christian Religion

A Philosophy of the Christian Religion offers a new kind of introduction to the subject. Whereas most introductions in the past have attempted to deal with religion in general, this book focuses on philosophical issues of special importance to Christianity. In doing this, Nancey Murphy also takes full account of how conceptual revolutions in philosophy now mean that what older introductions termed 'standard problems' have changed from the way they were dealt with in earlier eras.At the same time, this new introduction helps the reader to better understand how contemporary issues have come to take on their current force by placing them within the context of the most sophisticated account available of human reason: Alasdair MacIntyre's tradition-constituted rationality. ContentsPart One: A Brief History of Reason1. Ancient and Medieval Ways of Knowing the Divine2. Modern Epistemology and the Possibility of Theology3. Faith in Late Modern Reasoning4. Faith and Reason for the Twenty-First CenturyPart Two: Crises in Modern Christianity5. Three Epistemological Crises for Christianity in Modernity6. The Problem of Special Divine Action 7. Modern Problems of Evil and Suffering8. Science and Christianity9. Christian Anthropology, Philosophy, and Science10. The Development of Modern Naturalism