While I’m on the subject of great Christian authors, let me include another favorite of mine, Dr. William Lane Craig. Dr. Craig is currently Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. Dr. Craig is also well published and has an impressive academic background.
Dr. Craig is an excellent debater and has had a number of debates with atheists. At one of these that I attended (against R. Gregory Cavin, debate title Dead or Alive?: A Debate on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ), even the atheists that I sat near freely admitted that Dr. Craig won the debate hands down. Moreland has also taken on the Jesus Seminar. Tapes of the debates are for sale on his website. They make excellent study materials for small groups interested in Christian apologetics.
Some of Dr. Craig’s books were co-authored with Dr. J. P. Moreland. Dr. Craig’s books include:
– Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide
– Time and Eternity: Exploring God’s Relationship to Time * great book
– Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan
– Hard Questions, Real Answers
– Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or Figment?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig and Gerd Ludemann * great book
– The Son Rises
– Knowing the Truth About the Resurrection: Our Response to the Empty Tomb
– Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus
– The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy
– Five Views on Apologetics
– The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge & Human
– Divine Foreknowledge: 4 Views
– Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism : Omniscience
– Naturalism : A Critical Analysis (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)
– To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview
– Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
– Does God Exist: The Craig-Flew Debate
– God: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist (Point/Counterpoint Series (Oxford, England).)
– Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
– The Kalam Cosmological Argument
– Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
– No Easy Answers
– The Tenseless Theory of Time: A Critical Examination
– God, Time, and Eternity: The Coherence of Theism II : Eternity
– Time and the Metaphysics of Relativity
– Apologetics: An introduction
– Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
– The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez
– Creation out of Nothing: Its Biblical, Philosophical, and Scientific Exploration
– The Logic of Rational Theism: Exploratory Essays
– God Are You There
– Will the Real Jesus Please Stand-Up!
Dr. Craig defends a view of libertarian free will known as Molinism or Middle Knowledge.
His writings in the area of God and Time are excellent.
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