William Lane Craig
Biographic Data
| ID | 459478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Lane Craig |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Lane |
| FAMILY NAME | Craig |
| SIGNATURE | CRAIG W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Biola University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-7224-2455 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Systematic Philosophical Theology
"These volumes are chock full of arguments in a way that stands out in this field. . . . This is a remarkable, generational work that will become the resource in philosophical theology." — J.P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University "An enormous undertaking. However, Craig's past record indicates that he can and will carry it through to completion. Furthermore, his established reputation. . . guarantees that the work wi…
Systematic Philosophical Theology
Offers a transformative journey through Christian doctrine, invites readers to engage with an intellectually enriching exploration of faith and reason Systematic Philosophical Theology is a multi-volume explication of Christian doctrine in the classic Protestant tradition of the loci communes. Blending the disciplines of biblical theology, historical theology, and analytic theology, this landmark series provides readers with a biblically faithful…
God and Space
This paper inquires into the nature of God's relationship to space. It explores two different views, one that God transcends space or exists aspatially and the other that God exists throughout space and so is spatially extended. It seeks to adjudicate the debate between these competing perspectives by weighing the principal arguments for and against each view
Is God's Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love
Defenders of the identity thesis maintain that God's moral perfection is reducible to and identical to His love. Unfortunately, this thesis overlooks the fact that, biblically, God's righteousness comprises both His love and justice. Moreover, divine justice is, in some significant measure, retributive in nature. This is especially evident in God's eschatological punishment of the wicked, which can be justified only on retributive grounds. Such a…
Eleonore Stump’s Critique of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theories
The first three chapters of Eleonore Stump’s Atonement are devoted to a critique of atonement theories she styles “Anselmian,” including penal substitutionary theories. I focus on her critique of the latter. She presents three groups of objections labeled “internal problems,” “external problems,” and “further problems,” before presenting what she takes to be “the central and irremediable problem” facing such accounts. The external and further pro…
Is penal substitution incoherent? An examination of Mark Murphy's criticisms
Some critics of the doctrine of penal substitution have alleged that the doctrine is incoherent because punishment entails an attitude of condemnation or censure towards the person punished, which is impossible in the case of Christ. It is shown that this objection is multiply flawed and that a number of viable ways of avoiding the alleged incoherence are available to the penal substitution theorist
Kalam Cosmological Argument
Did the universe begin to exist? If so, did it have a cause? Or could it have come into existence uncaused, from nothing? These questions are taken up by the medieval--though recently-revived--kalam cosmological argument, which has arguably been the most discussed philosophical argument for God's existence in recent decades. The kalam's line of reasoning maintains that the series of past events cannot be infinite but rather is finite. Since the u…
The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
List of figures vi Notes on contributors vii Introduction ix William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland 1 The project of natural theology 1 Charles Taliaferro 2 The Leibnizian cosmological argument 24 Alexander R. Pruss 3 The kalam cosmological argument 101 William Lane Craig and James D. Sinclair 4 The teleological argument: an exploration of the fine-tuning of the universe 202 Robin Collins 5 The argument from consciousness 282 J. P. Moreland 6 The …
Divine Eternity
Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Response to David Myers
David Myers's critique of my proposed Molinist solution to the so-called soteriological problem of evil miscontrues that solution in several key respects. Once those misinterpretations are rectified, it emerges that his proffered critique of my Molinist solution is really quite unrelated to that solution, but constitutes instead an independent argument against the tenability of a religious epistemology of evidentialism in the context of Christian…
Naturalism
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Religion is a combined anthology and guide intended for use as a textbook in courses on Philosophy of Religion. It aims to bring to the student the very best of cutting-edge work on important topics in the field. The anthology is comprised of six sections, each of which opens with a substantive introductory essay followed by a selection of influential writings by philosophers of religion: I. Religious Epistemology (by Kevin Meeker, …
The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Wishing It Were Now Some Other Time
One of the most serious obstacles to accepting a tenseless view of time is the challenge posed by our experience of tense. A particularly striking example of such experience, pointed out by Schlesinger but largely overlooked in the literature, is the wish felt by probably all of us at some time or other that it were now some other time. Such a wish seems evidently rational to hold, and yet on a tenseless theory of time such a wish must be regarde…
Prof. Grünbaum on the ‘Normalcy of Nothingness’ in the Leibnizian and Kalam Cosmological Arguments
Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument
John Taylor complains that the Kalam cosmological argument gives the appearance of being a swift and simple demonstration of the existence of a Creator of the universe, whereas in fact a convincing argument involving the premiss that the universe began to exist is very difficult to achieve. But Taylor's proffered defeaters of the premisses of the philosophical arguments for the beginning of the universe are themselves typically undercut due to Ta…
On Truth Conditions Of Tensed Sentence Types
Creation and conservation once more
God is conceived in the Western theistic tradition to be both the Creator and Conservor of the universe. These two roles were typically classed as different aspects of creation, originating creation and continuing creation . On pain of incoherence, however, conservation needs to be distinguished from creation. Contrary to current analyses (such as Philip Quinn's), creation should be explicated in terms of God's bringing something into being, whil…
The new B-Theory's tu quoque argument
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
Robert Adams's New Anti-Molinist Argument
Talbott's Universalism Once More
In my ‘No Other Name’, I asserted that detractors of Christian exclusivism are, in effect, posing a soteriological problem of evil, to wit, that the proposition
The new B-Theory's tu quoque argument
Wishing It Were Now Some Other Time
One of the most serious obstacles to accepting a tenseless view of time is the challenge posed by our experience of tense. A particularly striking example of such experience, pointed out by Schlesinger but largely overlooked in the literature, is the wish felt by probably all of us at some time or other that it were now some other time. Such a wish seems evidently rational to hold, and yet on a tenseless theory of time such a wish must be regarde…
Prof. Grünbaum on the ‘Normalcy of Nothingness’ in the Leibnizian and Kalam Cosmological Arguments
On Truth Conditions Of Tensed Sentence Types
What place, then, for a creator
Barrow and Tipler on the Anthropic Principle vs . Divine Design
Is God's Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love
Defenders of the identity thesis maintain that God's moral perfection is reducible to and identical to His love. Unfortunately, this thesis overlooks the fact that, biblically, God's righteousness comprises both His love and justice. Moreover, divine justice is, in some significant measure, retributive in nature. This is especially evident in God's eschatological punishment of the wicked, which can be justified only on retributive grounds. Such a…
Robert Adams's New Anti-Molinist Argument
The Origin and Creation of the Universe
Whitrow and Popper on the Impossibility of an Infinite Past
God, time, and eternity
God is the ‘high and lofty One who inhabits eternity’, declared the prophet Isaiah, but exactly how we are to understand the notion of eternity is not clear. Traditionally, the Christian church has taken it to mean ‘timeless’. But in his classic work on this subject, Oscar Cullmann has contended that the New Testament ‘does not make a philosophical, qualitative distinction between time and eternity. It knows linear time only...’ He maintains, ‘Pr…
Whitrow and Popper on the Impossibility of an Infinite Past
Professor Mackie and the KalĀm cosmological argument
Like David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , J. L. Mackie's most potent blast against the rationality of belief in God, his The Miracle of Theism , appeared after his death. The book is a broadside against not only the traditional arguments for God's existence, such as the onto-, cosmo-, and teleological arguments, but also against proofs from consciousness, miracles, the idea of God, and so forth, and against the validity of religio…
The Guard at the Tomb
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Was Thomas Aquinas a B-Theorist of Time?
The Historicity of the Empty Tomb of Jesus
Until recently the empty tomb has been widely regarded as both an offence to modern intelligence and an embarrassment for Christian faith; an offence because it implies a nature miracle akin to the resuscitation of a corpse and an embarrassment because it is nevertheless almost inextricably bound up with Jesus's resurrection, which lies at the very heart of the Christian faith. But in the last several years, a remarkable change seems to have take…
God, Creation and Mr Davies
Paul's Dilemma in 2 Corinthians 5. 1–10
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Boethius on Theological Fatalism
Boece traite du probleme de la prescience divine et du libre arbitre dans le livre cinq de la Consolation . L'A. montre le rejet par Boece de la solution d'Origene et analyse la solution de Boece lui-meme, basee sur l'eternite de Dieu. Dieu voit en un meme present aussi bien ce qui est arrive que ce qui arrive ou arrivera. Ainsi Boece pense conserver le libre arbitre et la prescience de Dieu
Barrow and Tipler on the Anthropic Principle vs . Divine Design
“No Other Name”
The conviction ofthe New Testament writers was that there is no salvation apart from Jesus.This orthodox doctrine is widely rejected today because God's condemnation of persons in other world religions seems incompatihle with various attributes of God.Analysis reveals the real problem to involve certain counterfactuals of freedom, e.g., why did not God create a world in which all people would freely believe in Christ and be saved?Such questions p…
On Doubts About the Resurrection
‘Nice Soft Facts’
During the last several years, philosophers of religion have witnessed a long-drawn debate between Nelson Pike and John Fischer on the problems of theological fatalism, Fischer claiming in his most recent contribution to have proved that even if God's past beliefs are ‘nice soft facts’, still theological fatalism cannot be averted. Unfortunately, this debate has not – at least it seems to this observer – served substantially either to clarify the…
What place, then, for a creator
Talbott's Universalism
In a pair of recently published articles, Thomas Talbott has presented a carefully constructed case for universalism. He contends that from the principle (P 3 ) Necessarily, God loves a person S (with a perfect form of love) at a time t only if God's intention at t and every moment subsequent to t is to do everything within his power to promote supremely worthwhile happiness in S , provided that the actions taken are consistent with his promoting…
The Origin and Creation of the Universe
Talbott's Universalism Once More
In my ‘No Other Name’, I asserted that detractors of Christian exclusivism are, in effect, posing a soteriological problem of evil, to wit, that the proposition
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom (The Coherence of Theism
Robert Adams's New Anti-Molinist Argument
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
The new B-Theory's tu quoque argument
Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology
Creation and conservation once more
God is conceived in the Western theistic tradition to be both the Creator and Conservor of the universe. These two roles were typically classed as different aspects of creation, originating creation and continuing creation . On pain of incoherence, however, conservation needs to be distinguished from creation. Contrary to current analyses (such as Philip Quinn's), creation should be explicated in terms of God's bringing something into being, whil…
A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument
John Taylor complains that the Kalam cosmological argument gives the appearance of being a swift and simple demonstration of the existence of a Creator of the universe, whereas in fact a convincing argument involving the premiss that the universe began to exist is very difficult to achieve. But Taylor's proffered defeaters of the premisses of the philosophical arguments for the beginning of the universe are themselves typically undercut due to Ta…
On Truth Conditions Of Tensed Sentence Types
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