A Reader in Contemporary Philosophical Theology

by Crisp, Oliver D.

• ISBN13: 9780567031464
• ISBN10: 0567031462
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-31
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

A philosophical approach to analysing Christian doctrines has been developing since a renewal of interest in the Philosophy of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s by figures like Alvin Plantinga, Nicholas Wolterstorff and others. The new literature developed

Author Biography

Dr Oliver D. Crisp is Reader in Theology at the University of Bristol, UK. He has authored Jonathan Edwards and the Metaphysics of Sin (Ashgate, 2005), Divinity and Humanity: Issues in the Incarnation (CUP, 2007), and co-edited Jonathan Edwards: Philosophical Theologian (Ashgate, 2003) with Paul Helm.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Inspiration and Authority of Scripture

Section Introduction

'Sheehan's Shenanigans: How Theology Becomes Tomfoolery'

'The Bible is True'

'True Words'

'Infallibility'

The Trinity

Section Introduction

'Social Trinity and Tritheism'

'A Latin Trinity'

'Three Persons in One Being: On Attempts to Show that the Doctrine of the Trinity is Self-Contradictory'

The Incarnation

Section Introduction

'The Incarnation: A Philosophical Case for Kenosis'

'Aquinas' Metaphysics of the Incarnation'

'The possibilities of Incarnation: Some radical Molinist suggestions'

'Rationality and the Christian Revelation'

Sin and Original Sin

Section Introduction

'Original Sin: A Study in the Interaction of Philosophy and Theology'

'Sin as Uncleanness'

'Innocent Sinfulness, Guilty Sin: Original Sin and Divine Justice'

The Atonement

Section Introduction

'Penal Non-substitution'

'Do We Believe in Penal Substitution?'

'Abelard on Atonement: "Nothing Unintelligible, Arbitrary, Illogical, or Immoral about it"'

'The Christian Scheme of Salvation'

Index

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