This is a great book on loving God with our mind by one of my favorite authors, Dr. J. P. Moreland. Dr. Moreland is a professor of Christian Philosophy at Talbot Seminary in Southern California.
Dr. Moreland is an excellent speaker on subjects related to the Christian faith and Christian apologetics. He also served as interim pastor at Calvary Church in Santa Ana where we were blessed to hear him preach many times.
Dr. Moreland has written an impressive number of other books in the areas of Christian apologetics (the resurrection, atheism, worldviews and answering the Jesus Seminar), Philosophy of Science, Medical Ethics and General Christian Philosophy; including
– Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity
– Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
– To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview
– Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality
– Immortality: The Other Side of Death
– Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists & Atheists
– Jesus Under Fire
– Three Views on Creation and Evolution
– The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer
– Naturalism : A Critical Analysis
– Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide
– Christian Perspectives on Being Human: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integration
– Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics
– The Life and Death Debate
– Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation
– Universals, Qualities, and Quality-Instances: A Defense of Realism
– Universals (Central Problems of Philosophy (Montreal, Quebec).)
One of the great things about Dr. Moreland (and there are many of them) is that he has a science background. He has a BS in Chemistry. When Dr. Moreland writes about the philosophy of science he knows what he is talking about nnd it is relatively rare to have a writer that is scientifically, philosophically and theologically trained. Add to that, Dr. Moreland was a pastor for a number of years. This sort of multi-disciplinarian approach yields some thoughtful writing.
Dr. Moreland challenges us to think more Christianly. And even when it is painful to do so, that is a good thing.
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