Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays

This volume collects together Nicholas Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over the last thirty-five years.

Nicholas Wolterstorff (Author), Terence Cuneo (Edited by)

9781107417274, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 March 2014

322 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

'Nicholas Wolterstorff is well known as one of the founders of Reformed Epistemology, along with William Alston and Alvin Plantinga. I suspect, however, that his papers on epistemology and on philosophy of religion have not been as widely read as they should have been. I hope these volumes will rectify that. Analysis Reviews

Inquiring about God is the first of two volumes of Nicholas Wolterstorff's collected papers. This volume collects Wolterstorff's essays on the philosophy of religion written over the last thirty-five years. The essays, which span a range of topics including Kant's philosophy of religion, the medieval (or classical) conception of God, and the problem of evil, are unified by the conviction that some of the central claims made by the classical theistic tradition, such as the claims that God is timeless, simple, and impassible, should be rejected. Still, Wolterstorff contends, rejecting the classical conception of God does not imply that theists should accept the Kantian view according to which God cannot be known. Of interest to both philosophers and theologians, Inquiring about God should give the reader a lively sense of the creative and powerful work done in contemporary philosophical theology by one of its foremost practitioners.

Introduction
1. Analytic philosophy of religion: retrospect and prospect
2. Is it possible and desirable for theologians to recover from Kant?
3. Conundrums in Kant's rational religion
4. In defense of Gaunilo's defense of the fool
5. Divine simplicity
6. Alston on Aquinas on theological predication
7. God everlasting
8. Unqualified divine temporality
9. Suffering love
10. Is God disturbed by what transpires in human affairs?
11. The silence of the God who speaks
12. Barth on evil
13. Tertullian's enduring question.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of religion [HRAB]