The Testimony of the Spirit

Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of Philosophy after Objectivity, The Elusive God, The Evidence for God, The Severity of God; editor of The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology,A Priori Knowledge; co-editor of Human Knowledge, 3d ed.. He is the General Editor of The Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy. He is past Editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly.R. Douglas Geivett is Professor of Philosophy in the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. He is the author of Evil and the Evidence for God, and co-editor of the books Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology, In Defense of Miracles, Being Good: Christian Virtues of Everyday Life, and Christian Apologists and Their Critics.

• PrefaceIntroduction1. Craig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnston, The Testimony of the Spirit in Biblical Literature2. Stephen T. Davis, An Ontology of the Spirit3. Paul Gooch, Conscience and the Voice of God: Faithful Discernment4. C. Stephen Evans, The Testimony of the Spirit and Moral Knowledge5. Roger Trigg, Diversity and Spiritual Testimony6. Malcolm Jeeves, The Testimony of the Spirit: Insights from Psychology and Neuroscience7. Oliver Davies, Freedom, Community, and Language: Outline of a 'Neuroanthropological' Pneumatology8. Steven R. Guthrie, Art, Beauty, and the Testimony of the Spirit9. Elizabeth T. Groppe, 'Sighs Too Deep for Words': The Holy Spirit, Desire, andthe Name of the Incomprehensible God10. Kevin Kinghorn and Jerry L. Walls, The Spirit and the Bride Say 'Come': Apologetics and the Witness of the Holy Spirit11. Angus Ritchie, The Role of the Church in Discerning the Testimony of the SpiritBibliography on the Testimony of the SpiritIndex

"Geivett and Moser have done ground-breaking work in editing this brilliant interdisciplinary work on a major theme in Christian tradition and experience. Contributors address the epistemology, meaning, and metaphysics involved in appealing to 'the testimony of the Spirit,' drawing on philosophy, theology, Biblical studies, and even cognitive science and neuroscience. This provides religious believers and skeptics, experts and newcomers, an array of original,engaging work."--Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair, St. Olaf College"Analytic theologyDLamong the other methods deployed hereDLtakes a pneumatological turn! The so-called hidden member of the Trinity is no longer shy, in particular being given witness to in this collection of well-written essays. Here is testimony about the Spirit that clarifies the very murky topics surrounding about how God works among, in, and through human creatures as well as exemplifies the kind of substantive development on the Third Article ofthe faith required for the truly and robustly trinitarian theology called for and sought after in our time."--Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary, and author of Spirit of Love:A Trinitarian Theology of Grace"This volume not only fills in a crucial gap in the literature, it opens up a new network of issues to be taken up in philosophical theology and analytic theology. This is an outstanding set of interdisciplinary papers that should become essential reading for anyone interested in the testimony of the Holy Spirit and related topics."--William J. Abraham, Southern Methodist University"This volume is composed of an introduction and eleven essays which cover a wide variety of topics from moral epistemology to gendered language for God to apologetics to art."--Notre Dame Philosophical Review