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William Lane Craig (/ k r eɪ ɡ /; [2] born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and theologian. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is a professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University and at the Talbot School of Theology of Biola University .
The origins of the cosmological argument can be traced to classical antiquity, rooted in the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.In the 6th century, Syriac Christian theologian John Philoponus (c. 490–c. 570) proposed the first known version of the argument based on the impossibility of an infinite temporal regress, postulating that time itself must have had a beginning.
The Kalām Cosmological Argument is a 1979 book by the philosopher William Lane Craig, in which the author offers a contemporary defense of the Kalām cosmological argument and argues for the existence of God, with an emphasis on the alleged metaphysical impossibility of an infinite regress of past events. First, Craig argues that the universe ...
William Lane Craig uses Molinism to reconcile scriptural passages warning of apostasy with passages teaching the security of believers. [18] Craig has also used middle knowledge to explain a wide range of theological issues, such as divine providence [ 19 ] and predestination , [ 20 ] biblical inspiration , [ 21 ] perseverance of the saints ...
A debate with Craig A. Evans, entitled Did Jesus Exist? was held at Kennesaw State University on April 13, 2016, and posted online by KSUTV. In 2006, Carrier was the keynote speaker for the Humanist Community of Central Ohio's annual Winter Solstice Banquet, where he spoke on defending naturalism as a philosophy. [ 34 ]
Other prominent defenders of Reformed epistemology include William Lane Craig, William Alston, Michael C. Rea, and Michael Bergmann. [9] The argument from a proper basis is an ontological argument for the existence of God related to fideism.
Tabash has represented the atheist position in debates against several world-renowned religious philosophers and apologists, including William Lane Craig, [2] Peter van Inwagen, [3] J.P. Moreland, Greg Bahnsen, Mohammad Hijab, and Richard Swinburne. [4]
This implies for the debate on omnipotence that, as in matter, so in the human understanding of truth: it takes no true insight to destroy a perfectly integrated structure, and the effort to destroy has greater effect than an equal effort to build; so, a man is thought a fool who assumes its integrity, and thought an abomination who argues for ...