Inquiring About God: Volume 1, Selected Essays (v. 1)

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.

ISBN 0521514657   Pages 322 ISBN13 9780521514651 (What's this?)   Part volume Selected Essays Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 670 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 04 Feb 2010   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 202.11   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction		1
1		Analytic philosophy of religion: retrospect and prospect		17
2		Is it possible and desirable for theologians to recover from Kant?		35
3		Conundrums in Kant's rational religion		56
4		In defense of Gaunilo's defense of the fool		68
5		Divine simplicity		91
6		Alston on Aquinas on theological predication		112
7		God everlasting		133
8		Unqualified divine temporality		157
9		Suffering love		182
10		Is God disturbed by what transpires in human affairs?		223
11		The silence of the God who speaks		239
12		Barth on evil		255
13		Tertullian's enduring question		283
		Bibliography		304
		Index		309

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