PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THINKING.  McGraw-Hill, 2001.

PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION:  SELECTED READINGS.  Oxford University Press, 1996; 2nd ed. 2001; 3rd ed., 2006.  (Co-author).

ON BEHALF OF GOD:  A CHRISTIAN ETHIC FOR BIOLOGY.  William B. Eerdmans, 1995 (Co-author).

REASON AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF:  AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.  Oxford University Press, 1991; 2nd ed. 1998; 3rd ed. 2003. (Co-author). 

THE LAW OF KARMA:  A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY.  The Macmillan Press Ltd. and University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

EVIL AND A GOOD GOD.  Fordham University Press, 1982.

IS MAN THE PHOENIX?  A STUDY OF IMMORTALITY.  William B. Eerdmans, 1978; reprinted by University Press of America, 1983.

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT:  A REASSESSMENT.  Charles Thomas, Pub., 1972.

 

ARTICLES

"Does Plantinga Have His Own Defeater?" PHILOSOPHIA CHRISTI 8, no. 1 (2006):  141-150.  (co-authored with Adam Nugent).

ÒThe Cosmological Argument,Ó STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY (on-line - 2005).

ÒMiracle Cure or Moral Quagmire,Ó THE COVENANT COMPANION (October 2004):  6-9.

ÒDialoging Around the Well,Ó TILL AND KEEP (2003): 32-4.

ÒLutheran Identity and Diversity in Education,Ó INTERSECTIONS 17 (Summer 2003):  21-8.

ÒThe Hermeneutic Circle and Authorial Intention in Divine Revelation,Ó SOPHIA 42, no. 1 (May 2003): 47-60.

ÒBoulders, Native Prairie, and a Stewardship Ethic,Ó WORLDVIEWS 7, no. 1/ II (2003): 93-112.

ÒGenesis 1 as a Theological-Political Narrative of Kingdom Establishment,Ó BULLETIN FOR BIBLICAL RESEARCH 13, no. 1 (April 2003): 47-69.

"Inclusivism and the Atonement," FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY 16, no. 1 (January, 1999), 43-54.

"By His Stripes We Are Healed," JOURNAL OF THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 41, no. 4 (Dec. 1998): 551-560.  Translated into Russian, "РАНАМИ ЕГО МЬІ ИСЦЕЛИЛИСЬ,Ó ИСКУПЛЕНИЕ (International ScholarÕs Publications, 1999).

"The New Integrationists in Science and Religion," CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 27, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 338-352.

"Mission and Hiring Policies in the Christian College," INTERSECTIONS, no. 3 (Summer 1997): 13-19.

"On Being a Professor:  The Case of Socrates," FACULTY DIALOGUE, 1996.  Winner of the Ted Ward writing award.

"Justifying In-principle Nonpredictive Theories:  The Case of Evolution," CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 24, no. 3 (June 1995): 397-422.

"On Obligations to Future Generations," PUBLIC AFFAIRS QUARTERLY 6, no. 2 (April 1992), 207-225.

"Simulating Latin American Economic Culture," with Sharon Reichenbach, SOCIAL EDUCATION 55, no. 3 (March 1991): 188-191.

"Imaged Through the Lens Darkly:  Human Personhood and the Sciences," with V. Elving Anderson, JOURNAL OF THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 33, no. 2 (June 1990): 197-213.

"Karma, Causation, and Divine Intervention," PHILOSOPHY EAST AND WEST 39, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 135-149.

"The Law of Karma and the Principle of Causation," PHILOSOPHY EAST AND WEST 38, no. 4 (Oct. 1988): 399-410.

"Evil and a Reformed View of God," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 18 (1988): 67-85.

"Fatalism and Freedom," INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 28, no. 3 (Sept. 1988): 271-285.

"Est Ubi Gloria Nunc Babyloniae?" CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE 37, no. 4 (Summer 1988): 25-42.

"Euthanasia and the Active-Passive Distinction," BIOETHICS 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1987), 51-73.  [Translated into German "Euthanasie and die aktiv/passiv-Unterscheidung," in Anton Leist, ed., UM LEBEN UND TOD.  Frankfort am Main:  Suhrkamp (1990): pp. 318-348.]

"Hasker on Omniscience," FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY 4. no. 1 (Jan. 1987): 86-93.

"Cutting the Gift that Ties," BRETHREN LIFE AND THOUGHT 31 (Spring 1986): 111-120.

"Omniscience and Deliberation," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 16 (1985): 225-236.

"C.S. Lewis on the Desolation of De-valued Science," CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 11, no. 2 (1982), 99-111.   Reprinted in SEVEN 4 (Mar. 1983): 14-26.

"The Captivity of Third World Churches," EVANGELICAL MISSIONS QUARTERLY 18, no. 3 (July 1982): 166-179.

"The Gift of Singleness," THE REFORMED JOURNAL 32, no. 3 (March 1982): 4-5.

"On Disembodied Resurrected Persons:  A Reply," RELIGIOUS STUDIES 18 (Spring 1982): 225-229.

"The Deductive Argument from Evil," SOPHIA 20, no. 1 (Apr. 1981): 25-42.

"Basinger on Reichenbach and the Best Possible World," INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 20, no. 3 (Sept. 1980): 343-345.

"The Inductive Argument from Evil," AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 17, no. 3 (July 1980): 221-227.

"Mavrodes on Omnipotence," PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES 37 (Feb. 1980), 211-214.

"Why Is God Good?" THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION 60, no. 1 (Jan. 1980): 51-66.

"Price, Hick, and Disembodied Existence," RELIGIOUS STUDIES 15 (Fall 1979): 381-389.

"Must God Create the Best Possible World?" INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 19, no. 2 (June 1979):, 203-212.

"Monism and the Possibility of Life after Death," RELIGIOUS STUDIES 14 (Mar. 1978): 27-34.

"Resurrection of the Body, Re-Creation, and Interim Existence," JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA 21 (Dec. 1977): 33-42.

"Natural Evils and Natural Laws:  A Theodicy for Natural Evils," INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 16, no. 2 (June 1976): 179-196.

"Camus and Kierkegaard:  A Contrast in Existential Authenticity," CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 5, no. 3 (1976): 223-240.

"The Cosmological Argument and the Causal Principle," INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 6, no. 3 (1975): 185-190.

"Re-Creationism and Personal Identity," CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 4, no. 4 (1975): 326-330.

"Life After Death:  Possible or Impossible?" CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 3, no. 3 (1974): 232-244.

"How to Pull Your Family Together," ETERNITY 25, no. 8 (Aug. 1974): 13-14.

"Why Minister to the Dead," THE LUTHERAN STANDARD 11, no. 13 (July 6, 1971), 8-9.

"Divine Necessity and the Cosmological Argument," THE MONIST 54, no. 3 (July 1970): 401-415.

"Grandma's Funeral:  A Painful Post-Mortem," ETERNITY 20, no. 10 (Oct. 1969): 16-17.  Reprinted in DEATH:  JESUS MADE IT ALL DIFFERENT, ed. by Miriam G. Moran, (New Canaan, CN:  Keats Publishing, 1977), pp. 136-40.

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

ÒAtonement as Healing,Ó in James Beilby and Paul Eddy, eds. THE ATONEMENT:  FOUR VIEWS. Downers Grove, IL:  Intervarsity Press, 2006.

ÒDivine Revelation:  Discerning the Issues,Ó in James Beilby, ed., FOR FAITH AND CLARITY:  PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEOLOGY.  Grand Rapids, MI:  Baker, 2006, 85-112.

ÒTensions in a Stewardship Paradigm,Ó R. J. Berry, ed., ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP (London:  T & T Clark, 2006), 112-128.

ÒAt Least There is No Humbug Here,Ó in Gregory Bassham and Jerry L. Walls, eds.  THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA AND PHILOSOPHY:  THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WORLDVIEW (Chicago:  Open Court, 2005), 53-64.

ÒDances of Death:  Self-Sacrifice and Atonement,Ó in Jorge J.E. Gracia, ed. MEL GIBSONÕS PASSION AND PHILOSOPHY (Chicago:  Open Court, 2004), 190-203.

ÒExplanation and the Cosmological Argument,Ó in Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. Vanarragon, CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (London: Blackwell Publishing, 2004), 97-114.

"Epistemology:  Theological;" "God: Philosophy;" "God:  Arguments for the Existence of;" written and/or edited contribution to ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHRISTIANITY (Grand Rapids:  William B. Eerdmans, 2001).

"Karma and the Problem of Evil," in Gary E. Kessler, PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION (Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1999), pp. 246-55. (reprint)

"On Being a Professor:  The Case of Socrates," in David W. Gill, ed. SHOULD GOD GET TENURE?  ESSAYS ON RELIGION AND HIGHER EDUCATION (William B. Eerdmans, 1997), 8-26. (reprint)

"Implications of the Human Genome Project for Views of Morality," (co-author with V. Elving Anderson), in James P. Hurd, ed.,  INVESTIGATING THE BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN MORALITY.  Queenston, Ontario: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.

"Monism and Immortality," in Melville Y. Stewart, PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION:  AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY VIEWS.   Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 1996, 673-690.  (reprint)

"Freedom, Justice, and Moral Responsibility," in Clark Pinnock, ed., THE GRACE OF GOD, THE WILL OF MAN.  Grand Rapids:  Zondervan Press, 1989, 277-303.

"Buddhism, Karma and Immortality," in Paul Badham, ed., DEATH AND IMMORTALITY IN THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.  New York:  Paragon Press, 1987, 141-157.

"God Limits His Power," in David Basinger and Randall Basinger, eds., PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL.  Downers Grove, Ill.:  InterVarsity Press, 1986, 101-124.

"The Divine Command Theory and Objective Good," in Rocco Porreco, ed., THE GEORGETOWN SYMPOSIUM ON ETHICS.  Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America, 1984, 219-233.

BOOK REVIEWS

Bede Rimdle, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING, and Paul Copan and William Lane Craig, CREATION OUT OF NOTHING, in FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY 23, no. 1 (January 2006).

Nancey Murphy and George F.R. Ellis, ON THE MORAL NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE:  THEOLOGY, COSMOLOGY, AND ETHICS, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 27, no. 2 (Winter 1997), 257-59.

Jonathan L. Kvanvig, THE PROBLEM OF HELL, in INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, XXIX, no. 2 (1997), 134-36.

Philip Hefner, THE HUMAN FACTOR:  EVOLUTION, CULTURE, AND RELIGION, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW, 24, no 3 (June 1995), 494-96.

Jean-Luc Marion, GOD WITHOUT BEING, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 23, no. 4 (June 1994), 485-87.

Raymond J. Lawrence, THE POISONING OF EROS, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 23, no. 1 (Sept. 1993), 103-07.

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, THE DILEMMA OF FREEDOM AND FOREKNOWLEDGE, in THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 32, No. 1 (January 1993).

Robert S. Corrington, THE COMMUNITY OF INTERPRETERS, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 20, no. 1 (Sept. 1990), 90-2.

Leonard A. Kennedy, THOMISTIC PAPERS IV, in THE THOMIST 54, no. 2 (Apr. 1990), 371-76.

Jonathan L. Kvanvig, THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ALL-KNOWING GOD, in THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION 69, no. 1 (Jan. 1989), 123-24.

William Lane Craig, THE ONLY WISE GOD, in INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 28, no. 3 (Sept. 1988), 340-42.

Eugene Rochberg-Halton, MEANING AND MODERNITY, in WORD AND WORLD 8, no. 1 (Winter, 1988), 94-7.

Thomas V. Morris, ANSELMIAN EXPLORATIONS, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 17, no. 2 (Dec. 1987), 223-24.

David Basinger and Randall Basinger, PHILOSOPHY AND MIRACLE, in INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY 27, no. 4 (Dec. 1987), 454-56.

Thomas V. Morris, THE LOGIC OF GOD INCARNATE, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 16, no. 1 (Sept. 1986), 77-9.

Paul R. Sponheim, GOD:  THE QUESTION AND THE QUEST, in WORD AND WORLD 6, no. 4 (Fall, 1986), 463-67.

William Lane Craig, THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, in THE THOMIST 45, no. 2 (April 1981), 338-41.

John Hick, DEATH AND ETERNAL LIFE, in THE THOMIST 43, no. 4 (Oct. 1979), 666-70.

Thomas Szasz and Owsei Temkin, et al., RESPECT FOR LIFE, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 9. no. 2 (1979), 187-89.

Geddes MacGregor, REINCARNATION IN CHRISTIANITY, in THE REFORMED JOURNAL 28, no. 7 (July 1978), 19-20.

John J. Shepherd, EXPERIENCE, INFERENCE AND GOD, in THE THOMIST, 40, no. 3 (July, 1976), 488-92.

Charles E. Curran, POLITICS, MEDICINE & CHRISTIAN ETHICS:  A DIALOGUE WITH PAUL RAMSEY, in CHRISTIAN SCHOLAR'S REVIEW 4, no. 3 (1975), 265-67.