The Possibility Of Resurrection And Other Essays In Christian Apologetics
by Peter Van Inwagen
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Peter van Inwagen is a philosopher who became a Christian at the age of forty. His conversion was not a return to the religion of his childhood, but, on the contrary, consisted of the adoption of beliefs that had been held in explicit contempt by the Unitarian Sunday school teachers of his youth, the philosophers responsible for his professional training, and his colleagues in the philosophy department where he had been teaching for ten years at the time of his conversion.This collection of show more classic writings represents van Inwagen's attempts to answer the philosophical objections to Christianity that he encountered in these intellectually hostile environments. They include reflections on the charge that religious belief is belief that is unsupported by evidence, on arguments that purport to show that the doctrine of resurrection is metaphysically impossible, on the problem of evil, and on Hume's famous argument against belief in miracles. show lessTags
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Peter Van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of numerous works, including Material Beings; Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics; Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil; Persons: Human and Divine; and show more Existence: Essays in Ontology. show less
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