In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment
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In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment  -     By: James F. Sennett, Douglas Groothuis

In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment

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First presented in the 18th century, David Hume's forceful criticisms of natural theology continue to reverberate today. Putting his attacks in fresh perspective, this substantial critique of Hume's legacy by a team of respected philosophers offers a thorough reassessment of cosmological, teleological, moral, experiential, rational, and cumulative case arguments for God's existence. 352 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.

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Title: In Defense of Natural Theology: A Post-Humean Assessment
By: James F. Sennett, Douglas Groothuis
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 352
Vendor: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 2 ounces
ISBN: 0830827676
ISBN-13: 9780830827671
Stock No: WW827676

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The shadow of David Hume, the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, has loomed large against all efforts to prove the existence of God from evidence in the natural world. Indeed from Hume's day to ours, the vast majority of philosophical attacks against the rationality of theism have borne an unmistakable Humean aroma. The last forty years, however, have been marked by a resurgence in Christian theism among philosophers, and the time has come for a thorough reassessment of the case for natural theology. James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis have assembled a distinguished team of philosophers to engage the task: Terence Penelhum, Todd M. Furman, Keith Yandell, Garrett J. DeWeese, Joshua Rasmussen, James D. Madden, Robin Collins, Paul Copan, Victor Reppert, J. P. Moreland and R. Douglas Geivett. Together this team makes vigorous individual and cumulative arguments that set Hume's attacks in fresh perspective and that offer new insights into the value of teleological, cosmological and ontological arguments for God's existence.

Author Bio

Douglas Groothuis (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is professor of philosophy at Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado. He has published articles in such professional journals as Philosophia Christi, Themelios, Christian Scholars Review, Inquiry and Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He is the author of several books, including Unmasking the New Age, Confronting the New Age, Revealing the New Age Jesus, Truth Decay and, in the Wadsworth Philosophers Series, On Pascal and On Jesus.


James F. Sennett (Ph.D., University of Nebraska) has taught philosophy at Northwestern College, Pacific Lutheran University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, McNeese State University and Lincoln Christian College, and is the author of Modality, Probability, and Rationality: A Critical Examination of Alvin Plantinga's Philosophy. The editor of The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader, he has published articles in such professional journals as Philosophia Christi, Faith and Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Review, Cross Currents, Religious Studies and International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Editorial Reviews

This collection of fourteen essays provides a focused challenge to Hume's legacy in natural theology. Given the renewed interest in questions raised for Christian thought by science, and the proliferation of efforts among theologians to either defend or deny explanatory systems like intelligent design, this philosophic endeavor is an important one. -- Charlene P. E. Burns, Teaching Theology and Religion, September 2008

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