Inquiring about God: Volume 1, Selected Essays
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...
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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.
Editor's introduction viAcknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 Analytic philosophy of religion: retrospect and prospect 172 Is it possible and desirable for theologians to recover from Kant? 353 Conundrums in Kant's rational religion 564 In defense of Gaunilo's defense of the fool 685 Divine simplicity 916 Alston on Aquinas on theological predication 1127 God everlasting 1338 Unqualified divine temporality 1579 Suffering love 18210 Is God disturbed by what transpires in human affairs? 22311 The silence of the God who speaks 23912 Barth on evil 25513 Tertullian's enduring question 283Bibliography 304Index 309
\ From the Publisher'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\ \
