Reddit mentions of Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

I think the best thing to do here (especially if you enjoy reading) is to do some study into the good reasons why Christianity is believed to be correct. William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith is one of the best, most cohesive defenses of the reasonability of the Christian faith I've ever read but there are plenty of other good sources too (Richard Swinburne's The Existence of God and The Coherence of Theism, J.P. Moreland and Bill Craig's Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview, Paul Copan and Bill Craig's Come Let Us Reason, Craig Keener's Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, and Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief just to name a few).

For all things science and religion I recommend: Where the Conflict Really Lies by Alvin Plantinga and Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart (please forgive the title, it was the editor's choice not his).

For the "problem" of Evil I suggest God, Freedom, and Evil again by Plantinga and Evil and the Justice of God by NT Wright.

As a general primer on theology and philosophy go look at Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by JP Morgan Moreland (not the banking institution) and William Lane Craig.

That's impressive, but don't pride yourself too much. Be humble and acknowledge that if it wasn't for the grace of God you wouldn't be where you're at in the first place.

If you are interested in philosophy and apologetics, I highly recommend Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by William Lane Craig and J P Moreland. I'm deeply interested in theology and I have a fair amount of apologetics knowledge so hit me up if you have any questions or you just want to discuss the subject.

God bless you, brother.

Read this and you will be well prepared to answer pretty much any question out there, it may also be good to have just to look up the answers, you can just do a word search and find the material. The spiritual battleground is that of idea's and you can anticipate your secular colleagues and professors to be prepared to do battle with you on these accounts. Best wishes and may God bless you.

> I can see why you want to believe in imaginary friends so much.

I can see why your being so horrible towards me, not only from your most recent comment but throughout the entire discourse of our discussion. I have not said a single insulting phrase or even suggested that i was angry with you. You, for some weird reason, decided to take it upon yourself to be condescending, hateful, and flat out rude towards me simply because i have a different viewpoint on the matter of God's existence and religion. In fact, i think we could even classify this sort of attitude towards Christians, and God believers alike, as bigotry. unfortunately, this isn't the first time i have come across this sort of behavior on r/atheism, in fact its gotten so bad that people are now making fun of it. Well, i don't really want to continue talking about this issue with you, this will be my last comment in our discussion.

However, my parting words to you are, if you do change your mind on the topic we have been discussing (you not being willing to read a book simply because its authors views are different than yours), here is a book that will give you an almost complete understanding of the Christian Worldview and its philosophical foundations. have a good day

Yeah there is certainly no good defense for what they believe.

The answer of course is, "it depends". It depends on the soundness and cogency of the rich history of arguments for the truth of Christianity that have been offered through the centuries.

Like someone else pointed out, philosophy isn't a set of doctrines or propositions that you have to believe, thus making your question more akin to "can the truth claims of Christianity be simultaneously held with the truth claims of philosophy?"

There are many traditions within philosophy that are not compatible with Christianity. But of course there are rich philosophical traditions that are obviously compatible with it (Thomism, Neo-Aristotelianism, Calvinism, etc.)

If you're interested to go deeper into this question, you want to look at the sub-field of Philosophy of Religion. That's where all the interesting questions you probably have in mind happen.

I will warn you that most philosophers are atheists, but that should not deter you. Christianity has rich intellectual riches and some incredibly bright proponents who have dedicated their careers to defending it, people like Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga being the top two.

For a good place to start, I'd suggest:

Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland et al.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0830826947/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_g3Zhtb0ANHZFF

If you find that it's a bit too technical for you (depending on your background exposure to philosophy), I may then suggest starting with William Lane Craig's "Reasonable Faith".

There are no easy answers, but starting there might send you well on your way.

You mentioned in this thread that you were interested in WLC. There are several works that might be helpful to you:

Reasonable Faith

and if you have a lot of time

Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (Craig and Moreland, but includes a large collection of topics from many modern philosophers)

Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (Craig and Moreland)

Again, these last two are rather extensive, but you may find them to be useful if you're interested in the philosophical/scientific aspects of Christianity. Hope this helps!