CHRIST IAN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

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STEPHEN T. DAVIS

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CHRIST IANPHILOSOPHY OF

RELIGION

ESSAYS IN HONOR OF STEPHEN T. DAVIS

EDITED BY

C. P. RULOFF

UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

NOTRE DAME, IND IANA

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Chapter 2 by Richard Swinburne has appeared under the same title in The Metaphysics of theIncarnation, ed. Anna Marmodoro and Jonathan Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011),and is reprinted here by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 7 by Eleonore Stump has appeared under the title “God’s Simplicity” in The OxfordHandbook of Aquinas, ed. Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (Oxford: Oxford University Press,2012), and is reprinted here by permission of Oxford University Press.

Chapter 13 by Alvin Plantinga was originally published under the same title in Faith and Phi-losophy 23.1 ( January 2006): 3–32, and is reprinted here by permission of Faith and Philosophy.

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Christian philosophy of religion : essays in honor of Stephen T. Davis / edited by C.P. Ruloff.

pages cmIncludes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-268-04037-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)—ISBN 0-268-04037-0 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Christianity—Philosophy. 2. Theology. 3. Davis, Stephen T., 1940–I. Ruloff, C. P., 1967– editor.

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C O N T E N T S

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

C.P. Ruloff

I . DOCTRINE AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF

ONE Deep Redemption 29

Charles Taliaferro

TWO The Coherence of the Chalcedonian Definition of 46

the IncarnationRichard Swinburne

THREE Against Materialist Christology 65

Brian Leftow

FOUR Davis on the Resurrection of Jesus 95

John Hick

II . THE NATURE OF GOD AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF

F IVE How to Think about the Trinity 105

William Hasker

S IX On the Possibility of a Single Perfect Person 128

Dale Tuggy

SEVEN Divine Simplicity 149

Eleonore Stump

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E IGHT God and Abstract Objects: The Theological Challenge 165

of PlatonismWilliam Lane Craig

NINE Why Only an Immutable God Can Love, Relate, 202

and SufferAnselm K. Min

III . REASON AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF

TEN Faith and Testimony 233

Linda Zagzebski

ELEVEN Narrative and Natural Theology 249

Kelly James Clark

TWELVE Moral Arguments for Theism and Divine Command 258

Theories of Moral ObligationC. Stephen Evans

TH IRTEEN Against Materialism 273

Alvin Plantinga

IV. SCRIPTURE, THEOLOGY, AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF

FOURTEEN The Hidden Hand of God 317

Marguerite Shuster

F IFTEEN A True Word? Scripture, Authority, and the Question 333

of TruthAlan G. Padgett

S IXTEEN The Philosophical Theology of Stephen Davis: 345

Does It Coincide with Fundamental Theology?Gerald O’Collins, SJ

Selected Publications of Stephen T. Davis 354

List of Contributors 360

Index 362

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