- Winner of a 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Award- Winner of an Award of Excellence in the 2003 Chicago Book Clinic- What is real?- What is truth?- What can we know?- What should we believe?- What should we do and why?- Is there a God?- Can we know him?- Do Christian doctrines make sense?- Can we believe in God in the face of evil?These are fundamental questions that any thinking person wants answers to. These are questions that philosophy addresses. And the answers we give to these kinds of questions serve as the foundation stones for constructing any kind of worldview. Now updated and expanded in this second edition, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig offers a comprehensive introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective. In their broad sweep they seek to introduce readers to the principal subdisciplines of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics, and philosophy of religion. They do so with characteristic clarity and incisiveness. Arguments are clearly outlined, and rival theories are presented with fairness and accuracy. Philosophy, they contend, aids Christians in the tasks of apologetics, polemics, and systematic theology. It reflects our having been made in the image of God, helps us to extend biblical teaching into areas not expressly addressed in Scripture, facilitates the spiritual discipline of study, enhances the boldness and self-image of the Christian community, and is requisite to the essential task of integrating faith and learning. Here is a lively and thorough introduction to philosophy for all who want to know reality. This second edition now includes including enhanced arguments, updated bibliographies, and new chapters on atonement and the mind-body problem.

William Lane Craig (PhD, University of Birmingham, England; DTheol, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) is professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Houston Baptist University. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers. Craig has authored or edited over forty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; God, Time, and Eternity; and God and Abstract Objects, as well as over 150 articles in professional publications of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science.J. P. Moreland (PhD, University of Southern California) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is the author, coauthor, or contributor to over ninety-five books, including Does God Exist?, Universals, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, Consciousness and the Existence of God, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, Love Your God With All Your Mind, The God Question, and Debating Christian Theism. In his distinguished career, Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 175 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ for ten years. The founder and director of Eidos Christian Center, he also previously served as a bioethicist for PersonaCare Nursing Homes, Inc. headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Moreland?s ideas have been covered by both popular religious and non-religious outlets, including the New Scientist, Christianity Today, PBS's "Closer to Truth," and WORLD magazine. In 2016 Moreland was selected by The Best Schools as one of the "50 most influential living philosophers."

Preface Outline of the Book An Invitation to Christian PhilosophyPart I: Introduction 1 What Is Philosophy? 2 Argumentation and LogicPart II: Epistemology 3 Knowledge and Rationality 4 The Problem of Skepticism 5 The Structure of Justification 6 Theories of Truth and Postmodernism 7 Religious EpistemologyPart III: Metaphysics 8 What Is Metaphysics? 9 General Ontology: Existence, Identity, and Reductionism 10 General Ontology: Two Categories?Property and Substance 11 The Mind-Body Problem Part IA: Consciousness and Property Dualism or Mere-Property Dualism 12 The Mind-Body Problem Part IB: Alternatives to Property Dualism or Mere-Property Dualism 13 The Mind-Body Problem Part IIA: Arguments Regarding and Versions of Substance Dualism 14 The Mind-Body Problem Part IIB: The Main Physicalist Alternatives to Substance Dualism 15 Free Will and Determinism 16 Personal Identity and Life After DeathPart IV: Philosophy of Science 17 Scientific Methodology 18 The Realism-Antirealism Debate 19 Philosophy and the Integration of Science and Theology 20 Philosophy of Time and SpacePart V: Ethics 21 Ethics, Morality, and Metaethics 22 Ethical Relativism and Absolutism 23 Normative Ethical Theories: Egoism and Utilitarianism 24 Normative Ethical Theories: Deontological and Virtue EthicsPart VI: Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 25 The Existence of God I 26 The Existence of God II 27 The Coherence of Theism I 28 The Coherence of Theism II 29 The Problem of Evil 30 Creation, Providence, and Miracle 31 Christian Doctrines I: The Trinity 32 Christian Doctrines II: The Incarnation 33 Christian Doctrines III: Atonement 34 Christian Doctrines IV: Christian Particularism Suggestions for Further Reading Name Index Subject Index Scripture Index