The Wisdom of the Christian Faith

Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined, The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology, Philosophy after Objectivity and Knowledge and Evidence. He is co-editor of Divine Hiddenness and The Rationality of Theism, editor of Jesus and Philosophy and Rationality in Action, general editor of the book series Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy and editor of the journal American Philosophical Quarterly. Michael T. McFall is Visiting Instructor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Licensing Parents: Family, State, and Child Maltreatment.

• Introduction: philosophy and cruciform wisdom; Part I. Wisdom, Faith, and Reason: 1. Faithful knowing Paul Gooch; 2. Repentance and self-knowledge Merold Westphal; 3. Obedience and responsibility William Wainwright; 4. Forgiveness, justification, and reconciliation John Hare; Part II. Wisdom, Love, and Evil: 5. Wisdom and evil Andrew Pinsent; 6. Moral character and temptation Sylvia Walsh; 7. Altruism, egoism and sacrifice Gordon Graham; 8. Unconditional love and spiritual virtues Robert C. Roberts; Part III. Wisdom, Contemplation, and Action: 9. Meaningful life John Cottingham; 10. Beauty and aesthetics in theology Charles Taliaferro; 11. Education for political autonomy Paul Weithman; 12. The wisdom of hope in a despairing world Jerry Walls.

'Though written entirely by philosophers and a serious work of Christian philosophy in its own right, I also recommend this book to pastors and seminarians. It is a fitting example of philosophy done in the service of the church, and an illustration of theological and pastoral benefits that such endeavors can produce.' J. Thomas Chopp, Themelios