William Lane Craig

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William Lane Craig
William Lane Craig.jpg
Born (1949-08-23) August 23, 1949 (age 69)
Peoria, Illinois, US
ResidenceMarietta, Georgia, US[1]
EducationWheaton College (B.A. 1971)
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
(M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975)
University of Birmingham (Ph.D. 1977)
University of Munich (D.Theol. 1984)
Notable work
Reasonable Faith (1994)
Spouse(s)
Jan Craig (m. 1972)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Institutions
Doctoral advisor
Other academic advisorsNorman Geisler
Main interests
Notable ideas
Kalam cosmological argument
Websitereasonablefaith.org

William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher and Christian theologian.[6] He holds faculty positions at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) and Houston Baptist University. Craig has developed and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. He also focused in his published work on a historical argument for the resurrection of Jesus. His research on divine aseity and Platonism culminated with his book God Over All. He has also debated the existence of God with public figures such as Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence M. Krauss[1] and A. C. Grayling.[7] Craig established and runs the online apologetics ministry ReasonableFaith.org.

Life and career[edit]

Born August 23, 1949, in Peoria, Illinois, Craig is the second of three children[citation needed] born to Mallory and Doris Craig.[8][9] His father's work with the T. P. & W. railroad took the family to Keokuk, Iowa, until his transfer to the home office in East Peoria in 1960. While a student at East Peoria Community High School (1963–1967),[10][non-primary source needed] Craig became a championship debater and public speaker,[11] being named his senior year to the all-state debate team and winning the state championship in oratory.[12][not in citation given] In September 1965, his junior year, he converted to Christianity,[13][14] and after graduating from high school,[citation needed] attended Wheaton College, majoring in communications.[15] Craig graduated in 1971[11] and the following year married his wife Jan,[citation needed] whom he met on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ.[11][16] In 2014, he was named alumnus of the year by Wheaton.[17]

In 1973 Craig entered the program in philosophy of religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School north of Chicago, where he studied under Norman Geisler.[18][19] In 1975 Craig commenced doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Birmingham in England, writing on the cosmological argument[citation needed] under the direction of John Hick.[11] He was awarded a doctorate in 1977.[20] Out of this study came his first book, The Kalam Cosmological Argument (1979), a defense of the argument he first encountered in Hackett's work. Craig was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in 1978 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to pursue research on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus under the direction of Wolfhart Pannenberg at the Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München in Germany.[citation needed] His studies in Munich under Pannenberg's supervision led to a second doctorate, this one in theology,[17][21] awarded in 1984 with the publication of his doctoral thesis, The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (1985).[citation needed]

Craig joined the faculty of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1980, where he taught philosophy of religion for the next seven years. In 1982 Craig received an invitation to debate Kai Nielsen at the University of Calgary, Canada, on the question of God's existence,[citation needed] and has since then debated many philosophers, scientists, and biblical scholars.[22]

After a one-year stint at Westmont College[9] on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, Craig moved in 1987 with his wife and two young children back to Europe,[citation needed] where he pursued research for the next seven years as a visiting scholar at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium.[15] Out of that period of research issued seven books, among them God, Time, and Eternity (2001).[citation needed] In 1994, Craig joined the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at Talbot School of Theology in suburban Los Angeles as a Research Professor of Philosophy, a position he currently[when?] holds,[13] and he went on to become a Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University in 2014. In 2016, Craig was named Alumnus of the Year by Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.[23] In 2017, Biola created a permanent faculty position and endowed chair, the William Lane Craig Endowed Chair in Philosophy, in honor of Craig's academic contributions.[24]

Craig served as president of the Philosophy of Time Society from 1999 to 2006.[25] He helped found the Evangelical Philosophical Society and served as its president from 1996 to 2005.[25]

Research[edit]

Kalam cosmological argument[edit]

See also: Kalam cosmological argument

Craig has worked extensively on a version of the cosmological argument called the Kalam cosmological argument.[26][27] While the Kalam has a venerable history in medieval Islamic philosophy, Craig updated the argument to interact with contemporary scientific and philosophical developments.[who said this?] Craig's research resulted in renewed contemporary interest in the argument, and in cosmological arguments in general; the philosopher Quentin Smith states: "a count of the articles in the philosophy journals shows that more articles have been published about Craig's defense of the Kalam argument than have been published about any other philosopher's contemporary formulation of an argument for God's existence."[28]

Craig formulates his Kalām Cosmological Argument in the following manner:

  1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence.
  2. The universe began to exist.
  3. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.[29]

In his later literature, Craig sometimes uses a more modest version of the first premise, in order to bypass certain issues:

  1. If the universe began to exist, then the universe has a cause of its beginning.[30]

Philosophically, Craig uses two traditional arguments to show that time is finite: he argues that the existence of an actual infinite is metaphysically impossible, and that forming an actual infinite through successive addition is metaphysically impossible.[31]

Granting the strict logical consistency of post-Cantorian, axiomatized infinite set theory, Craig concludes that the existence of an actually infinite number of things is metaphysically impossible due to the consequential absurdities that arise.[32] Craig illustrates this point using the example of Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel. In Hilbert's hypothetical fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms, one can add an additional guest in room #1 by moving the guest in room #1 to room #2, the guest in room #2 into room #3, the guest in room #3 into room #4 and continue the shifting of rooms out to infinity. Craig points out that it is absurd to add an additional guest to a fully occupied hotel and the absurd result that the hotel has the same number of guests, infinity, both before after adding the additional guest.[33] Stating that the mathematical conventions stipulated to ensure the logical consistency of this type of transfinite arithmetic have no ontological force, Craig concludes that finitism is most plausibly true, which means that the series of past events in the universe must be finite, so it must have had a beginning.[34]

Craig says that just as it is impossible, despite the proponents of "super-tasks", to count to infinity, so it is metaphysically impossible to count down from infinity.[35] Craig says that an inversion of the story of Tristram Shandy is a counter-intuitive absurdity that could result from the formation of an actual infinite. Craig claims that if the universe were eternal, an infinite number of events would have occurred before the present moment, which he says is impossible.[36]

One of Craig's contributions to the kalam cosmological argument is his reference to astrophysics in support of the universe's beginning, namely the expansion of the universe and thermodynamics.[37]

Craig says that the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric Big Bang model predicts a cosmic singularity, which marks the origin of the universe in the finite past.[38] Craig says that competing models which do not imply an origin of the universe have either proved to be untenable (such as the steady state model and vacuum fluctuation models) or implied the beginning of the universe they were designed to avoid (oscillating models, inflationary models, quantum gravity models). Craig says that the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem of 2003 requires that any universe which has on average been in a state of cosmic expansion cannot be eternal.[39]

Craig believes that recent discoveries about the expansion of the universe and relativity theory support his view that thermodynamic properties of the universe show it is not eternal.[40][41] Craig says that postulating a multiverse of worlds in varying thermodynamic states encounters the problem of Boltzmann brains—that it becomes highly probable for any observer that the universe is only an illusion of his own brain, a solipsistic conclusion Craig says no rational person would embrace.[42]

Based on these arguments, Craig concludes that the premise that the universe began to exist is more plausible than not, and conjoined with premise 1, the beginning of the universe implies the existence of a cause. Craig claims that, due to its nature, the cause must be an uncaused, beginningless, changeless, timeless, spaceless, immaterial being of enormous power, which he refers to as God.[43]

Divine omniscience[edit]

One of the central questions raised by the classical doctrine of divine omniscience is the compatibility of divine foreknowledge and free will:

  1. If God foreknows the occurrence of some event E, does E happen necessarily?[44]
  2. If some event E is contingent, how can God foreknow E's occurrence?[45]

According to Craig, the first question raises the issue of theological fatalism. He attempts to reduce this problem to the problem of logical fatalism, which holds that if it is true that E will happen, then E will happen necessarily. He challenges theological fatalists to show how the addition of God's knowing some future-tense statement to be true adds anything essential to the problem over and above that statement's being true.[46]

Craig says that theological fatalists have misunderstood "temporal necessity", or the necessity of the past, and that the impossibility of backward causation does not imply that one cannot have a sort of counterfactual power over past events.[47]

Craig surveyed the rejection of parallel fatalistic arguments in fields other than theology or philosophy of religion. He reviews discussions of backward causation,[48]time travel,[49] the special theory of relativity, precognition,[50] and Newcomb's paradox to conclude that fatalistic reasoning has failed.[51]

The second question arising from divine foreknowledge of future contingents concerns the means by which God knows such events.[52] Craig says that the question presupposes a tensed or A-theory of time, for on a tenseless or B-theory of time there is no ontological distinction between past, present, and future, so that contingent events which are future relative to us are no more difficult for God to know than contingent events which are, relative to us, past or present. Distinguishing between perceptualist and conceptualist models of divine cognition, Craig says that models which construe God's foreknowledge of the future along perceptualist lines (God foresees what will happen) are difficult to reconcile with a tensed theory of time (though one might say that God perceives the present truth-values of future contingent propositions). He does not similarly challenge a conceptualist model which construes God's knowledge along the lines of innate ideas.[53]

The doctrine of middle knowledge is one such conceptualist model of divine cognition which Craig has explored. Formulated by the Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina, the doctrine of middle knowledge holds that logically prior to his decree to create a world God knew what every possible creature he might create would freely do in any possible set of circumstances in which God might place him. On the basis of his knowledge of such counterfactuals of free will[54] and his knowledge of his own decree to create certain creatures in certain circumstances, along with his own decision how he himself shall act, God automatically knows everything that will actually and contingently happen, without any perception of the world.[55]

Craig has become a proponent of Molinism, supporting middle knowledge and also applying it to a wide range of theological issues, such as divine providence[56] and predestination,[57] biblical inspiration,[58] perseverance of the saints,[59] Christian particularism,[60] and the problem of evil.[61]

Divine eternity[edit]

Craig's earlier work on the kalam cosmological argument and on divine omniscience intersected significantly with the philosophy of time and the nature of divine eternity.[62]

Craig examines arguments aimed at showing either that God is timeless or omnitemporal.[63] He defends the coherence of a timeless and personal being, but says that the arguments for divine timelessness are unsound or inconclusive.[64] By contrast, he gives two arguments in favor of divine temporality. First, he says that if a temporal world exists, then in virtue of his real relations to that world, God cannot remain untouched by its temporality.[53] Craig says that given God's changing relations with the world he must change at least extrinsically, which is sufficient for his existing temporally. Second, Craig says that if a temporal world exists, then in virtue of his omniscience, God must know tensed facts about the world, such as what is happening now, which Craig argues is sufficient for his being temporally located. Craig argues that, since a temporal world does exist, it follows that God exists in time.[65]

Craig says that there is one way of escape from these arguments, which is to accept a B-Theory of time.[66] Craig concludes that one's theory of time is a watershed issue for one's doctrine of divine eternity.[67]

In The Tensed Theory of Time (2000) and The Tenseless Theory of Time (2000), Craig examines the arguments for and against the A- and B-Theories of time respectively.

Elements of Craig's philosophy of time differentiates between time itself and our measures of it (a classical Newtonian theme), and includes an analysis of spatial "tenses" to the location of the "I-now", his defense of presentism, his analysis of McTaggart's paradox[68] as an instance of the problem of temporary intrinsics, his defense of a neo-Lorentzian interpretation of special relativity, and his formulation of a tensed possible worlds semantics.[69]

Craig presents a doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time. Defending Leibniz's argument against God's enduring for infinite time prior to creating the universe, and appealing to the kalam cosmological argument, Craig says that God exists timelessly and temporally since the moment of creation.[70] Craig says that cosmic time, which registers the age of the universe, is the measure of God's time. The universe is, Craig concludes, God's clock.[71]

Resurrection of Jesus[edit]

Craig's two volumes The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus (1985) and Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus (3rd ed., 2002) are said by the Christian reviewers Gary Habermas and Christopher Price to be among the most thorough investigations of the event of Jesus' resurrection.[72][verification needed][73][unreliable source?] In the former volume, Craig describes the history of the discussion, including David Hume's arguments against the identification of miracles. The latter volume is an exegetical study of the New Testament material pertinent to the resurrection.

Craig summarizes the relevant evidence under three major heads:[74]

  1. The tomb of Jesus was found empty by a group of his female followers on the Sunday after his crucifixion.[75]
  2. Various individuals and groups experienced appearances of Jesus alive after his death.
  3. The earliest disciples came to believe that God had raised Jesus from the dead despite strong predispositions to the contrary.

Craig's discussion of the evidence for each of these events includes a defense of the traditions of Jesus' burial by Joseph of Arimathea, a close exegesis of the Pauline doctrine of the resurrection body, and an investigation of pagan and Jewish notions of resurrection from the dead.[76]

Craig argues that the best explanation of these three events is that God raised Jesus from the dead.[77] He rejects alternative theories such as Gerd Lüdemann's hallucination hypothesis as lacking explanatory scope, explanatory power, and sufficient historical knowledge to support the psychoanalysis Lüdemann performs.[78] Craig's historical case for the resurrection employs standard historical practices for weighing historical hypotheses concluding that the resurrection is a better match to the available historical data.[79] Specifically, Craig argues, that if one does not begin with the assumption that there is no God, there is a higher probability of the resurrection hypothesis than of its negation, so the resurrection hypothesis is improbable only if one begins with unsupported assumptions.[80] Craig also notes that a miraculous explanation of the evidence is increased when one locates the resurrection of Jesus in the context of Jesus' ministry and personal statements.[81] This context, Craig argues, provides the interpretive key to the meaning of Jesus' resurrection as the divine vindication of the allegedly blasphemous statements for which Jesus was tried and executed.[82]

Divine aseity[edit]

Craig is currently[when?] focused on the challenge posed by platonism to divine aseity or self-existence.[83][verification needed] Craig rejects the view that God creates abstract objects[84] and defends nominalistic perspectives on abstract objects.[85] Stating that the Quine–Putnam indispensability thesis is the chief support of platonism,[86] Craig criticizes Willard Van Orman Quine's naturalized epistemology and confirmational holism, and also rejects the metaontological criterion of ontological commitment.[87]

Craig favors a neutral logic, according to which the formal quantifiers of first-order logic, as well as the informal quantifiers of ordinary language, are not ontologically committing.[88] He also advocates a deflationary theory of reference, according to which referring is a speech act rather than a word-world relation, so that singular terms may be used in true sentences without commitment to corresponding objects in the world.[89] If one stipulates that first-order quantifiers are being used as devices of ontological commitment, then Craig adverts to fictionalism, in particular pretense theory,[citation needed] according to which statements about abstract objects are expressions of make-believe, imagined to be true, though literally false.[90]

Other views[edit]

Craig is a critic of metaphysical naturalism,[91] New Atheism,[92] and prosperity theology,[93] as well as a defender of Reformed epistemology.[94] He also states that being a confessing Christian is not compatible with practicing homosexuality.[95][page range too broad][96][97][98] Craig maintains that the theory of evolution is compatible with Christianity.[99][100] Craig has an agnostic position on the creation account.[101][102][not specific enough to verify] He is a fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture[103] and was a fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design.[104]

As a divine command theorist, Craig believes God had the moral right to command the killing of the Canaanites if they refused to leave their land, as depicted in the Book of Deuteronomy.[105][106] This has led to some controversy. The prominent atheist Richard Dawkins has repeatedly refused to debate Craig, and has given what he calls Craig's defense of genocide as one of his reasons.[107][108] Richard Dawkins himself came under attack for refusing to debate with William Lane Craig, with fellow atheist Daniel Came saying:

The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be interpreted as cowardice on your part. I notice that, by contrast, you are happy to discuss theological matters with television and radio presenters and other intellectual heavyweights like Pastor Ted Haggard of the National Association of Evangelicals and Pastor Keenan Roberts of the Colorado Hell House.[109]

He later devoted an article in the Guardian to his refusal, declaring it 'anti-intellectualist' and 'patronising', whilst slating the whole New Atheism movement for 'replacing one form of irrationality with another.' [110]

Craig has also proposed an Apollinarian Christology in which the divine logos stands in for the human soul of Christ and completes his human nature.[111]

Reception[edit]

According to Nathan Schneider, "[many] professional philosophers know about him only vaguely, but in the field of philosophy of religion, [Craig's] books and articles are among the most cited".[1] Sam Harris has described Craig as "the one Christian apologist who seems to have put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists."[1]

Some scholars, such as Wes Morriston of the University of Colorado Boulder, have challenged some of Craig's views, such as the Kalam Cosmological argument,[112] the foundation of God for morality,[113] the alleged genocide of the Canaanites,[114] as well as Craig's views on actual infinites,[115] his fine-tuning argument,[116] and his arguments for the resurrection of Jesus.[117]

Selected publications[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Schneider, Nathan (July 1, 2013). "The New Theist: How William Lane Craig Cecame Christian Philosophy's Boldest Apostle". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Washington. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
  2. ^ Craig & Carroll 2016, p. 102.
  3. ^ a b c Craig, William Lane (August 23, 2011). "Dr. Craig's Favorite Philosopher, Debate, and Books". Reasonable Faith (podcast). Interviewed by Harris, Kevin. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  4. ^ Alvarez 2013, p. 238.
  5. ^ Roach, David (September 8, 2014). "Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg Dies". Baptist Press. Southern Baptist Convention. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  6. ^ Creel 2014, p. 205.
  7. ^ https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-5-Jul-2011-William-Lane-Craig-vs-AC-Grayling-debate-on-God-Evil
  8. ^ "William Lane Craig" 2007.
  9. ^ a b Craig, William Lane. "Curriculum Vitae". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  10. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Debating". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  11. ^ a b c d Robinson & Baggett 2016, p. 211.
  12. ^ "Records and History – Original Oratory". Illinois High School Association. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  13. ^ a b "William Lane Craig". La Mirada, California: Biola University. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  14. ^ "William Lane Craig and Sean McDowell". Fervr. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  15. ^ a b Robinson & Baggett 2016, p. 212.
  16. ^ Schneider, Nathan (July 12, 2013). "7 Habits of a Highly Effective Philosopher". Killing the Buddha. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  17. ^ a b "Dr. William Lane Craig Named Alumnus of the Year". Wheaton, Illinois: Wheaton College. May 7, 2014. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  18. ^ Robinson & Baggett 2016, pp. 211–212.
  19. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Double Doctorates". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  20. ^ Robinson & Baggett 2016, p. 211; "William Lane Craig" 2007.
  21. ^ Craig, William Lane (April 28, 2013). "Creation and Evolution (Part 2)". Defenders Podcast. Reasonable Faith. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  22. ^ Stafforini, Pablo (August 18, 2016). "William Lane Craig: A Complete List of Debates". Pablo's Miscellany. Pablo Stafforini. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2016.
  23. ^ Trinity International University (July 22, 2016). "William Lane Craig Named TEDS Alumnus of the Year". Buffalo Grove Countryside. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  24. ^ Wu, Joanna (Spring 2017). "William Lane Craig Named in Biola's First Endowed Chair". Biola Magazine. La Mirada, California: Biola University. p. 15. Retrieved September 30, 2018.
  25. ^ a b Robinson & Baggett 2016, p. 213.
  26. ^ Cowan & Spiegel 2009, pp. 268–269; Jackson 2014, p. 19; Peterson et al. 2013, pp. 86–89; Reichenbach 2017; Williams 2013, p. 89.
  27. ^ "Who's Who: Modern Authors: William Lane Craig (Entry 2)". Philosophy of Religion.info. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  28. ^ Smith 2007, p. 183.
  29. ^ Craig outlines this argument and seven others for the existence of God in Craig, William Lane (2013). "Does God Exist?". Philosophy Now. No. 99. London. ISSN 0961-5970. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  30. ^ Craig, William Lane. "The Kalam Cosmological Argument". Reasonable Faith. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  31. ^ Craig & Sinclair 2009, p. 103.
  32. ^ Craig & Sinclair 2009, pp. 106–107.
  33. ^ Oppy 1995.
  34. ^ Reichenbach 2013.
  35. ^ Craig, William Lane (May 17, 2009). "Pruss on Forming an Actual Infinite by Successive Addition". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 18, 2009. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  36. ^ Craig 1979.
  37. ^ Craig & Sinclair 2009, p. 125.
  38. ^ Craig 1992.
  39. ^ Mitchell, Jacqueline (May 29, 2012). "In the Beginning Was the Beginning". Tufts Now. Medford, Massachusetts: Tufts University. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  40. ^ "Existence of God Part 11". Defenders Podcast. Reasonable Faith. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  41. ^ Craig, William Lane. "The End of the World". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  42. ^ Craig, William Lane (September 30, 2012). "Invasion of the Boltzmann Brains". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  43. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Must the Beginning of the Universe Have a Personal Cause?". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  44. ^ Craig 1990.
  45. ^ Viney 1989.
  46. ^ Zagzebski 2011.
  47. ^ Craig, William Lane (January 7, 2008). "Molinism and Free Will". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  48. ^ Craig 2000b, pp. 83–88.
  49. ^ Craig 2000b, pp. 89–96.
  50. ^ Craig 2000b, pp. 97–104.
  51. ^ Craig 1987.
  52. ^ "Participants: Craig, William Lane". Closer to Truth. Kuhn Foundation. Archived from the original on November 8, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2011.
  53. ^ a b Craig 2009.
  54. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Does Correspondence Preclude the Truth of Counterfactuals of Freedom?". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  55. ^ Craig, William Lane (September 24, 2007). "Middle Knowledge". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on January 30, 2015. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  56. ^ Craig, William Lane (April 19, 2010). "Molinism vs. Calvinism". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  57. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Molinism and Divine Election". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  58. ^ Craig, William Lane. "A Molinist Perspective on Biblical Inspiration". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  59. ^ Craig 1991.
  60. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Middle Knowledge and Christian Particularism". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  61. ^ Craig, William Lane (June 7, 2015). "Molinism and the Problem of Evil". Reasonable Faith (podcast). Interviewed by Harris, Kevin. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  62. ^ Craig & Sinclair 2009, pp. 184–185.
  63. ^ Craig 2000c.
  64. ^ Craig 1996.
  65. ^ Craig 1998a.
  66. ^ Craig 2000a.
  67. ^ Craig 2001c, p. 115.
  68. ^ Oaklander 2002.
  69. ^ Craig 2001c, pp. 51–66.
  70. ^ Helm 2011, pp. 220ff.
  71. ^ Craig 2001a.
  72. ^ Habermas 1988.
  73. ^ Price, Christopher (2005). "Review of The Son Rises: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus by William L. Craig". Christian Colligation of Apologetics Debate Research & Evangelism. Archived from the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  74. ^ Craig 2008, p. 360.
  75. ^ Craig 2001b.
  76. ^ Craig 1985.
  77. ^ Perman, Matt (September 12, 2007). "Historical Evidence for the Resurrection". Desiring God. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  78. ^ Craig, William Lane. "Visions of Jesus: A Critical Assessment of Gerd Lüdemann's Hallucination Hypothesis". Reasonable Faith. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  79. ^ McGrew & McGrew 2009, p. 617.
  80. ^ Craig 1986.
  81. ^ Craig 1998b.
  82. ^ Craig, William Lane. "The Resurrection of Jesus". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  83. ^ Craig 2014.
  84. ^ Moreland & Craig 2003, pp. 506–507.
  85. ^ Craig 2012a.
  86. ^ Liggins 2008.
  87. ^ Craig, William Lane (October 28, 2012). "Can We Refer to Things That Are Not Present?". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  88. ^ Craig 2012b.
  89. ^ Båve 2009.
  90. ^ Nichols & Stich 1999.
  91. ^ Craig & Moreland 2000.
  92. ^ Copan & Craig 2009.
  93. ^ Craig, William Lane (March 28, 2010). "Lightning Strikes Again". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on May 22, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  94. ^ "Religious Epistemology MP3 Audio by William Lane Craig". Apologetics 315. December 30, 2008. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  95. ^ Craig 2003, pp. 129–144.
  96. ^ Zaimov, Stoyan (April 9, 2013). "Christian Apologist Says Church 'Losing Battle' Against Hate Label for Homosexuality Stance". The Christian Post. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  97. ^ Craig, William Lane. "A Christian Perspective on Homosexuality". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  98. ^ Craig, William Lane (May 19, 2008). "Christian Homosexuals?". Reasonable Faith. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  99. ^ Stewart 2007.
  100. ^ Craig, William Lane (February 20, 2012). "Evolutionary Theory and Theism". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  101. ^ Craig, William Lane (2009). "William Lane Craig's View on Creation and Evolution". YouTube. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  102. ^ "Doctrine of Creation". Reasonable Faith. Archived from the original on December 18, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  103. ^ "William Lane Craig". Discovery Institute. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  104. ^ "Society Fellows". International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. Archived from the original on September 28, 2018. Retrieved October 9, 2011.
  105. ^ Copan & Flannagan 2014, pp. 81–82; Howson 2011, p. 11.
  106. ^ Craig, William Lane (August 8, 2011). "The 'Slaughter' of the Canaanites Re-visited". Reasonable Faith. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  107. ^ Dawkins, Richard (October 20, 2011). "Why I Refuse to Debate with William Lane Craig". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  108. ^ Came, Daniel (October 22, 2011). "Richard Dawkins's Refusal to Debate Is Cynical and Anti-Intellectualist". The Guardian. London. Retrieved September 28, 2018.
  109. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8511931/Richard-Dawkins-accused-of-cowardice-for-refusing-to-debate-existence-of-God.html
  110. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/22/richard-dawkins-refusal-debate-william-lane-craig
  111. ^ Moreland & Craig 2003, p. 608.
  112. ^ Morriston 2013.
  113. ^ Morriston 2012.
  114. ^ Morriston 2009.
  115. ^ Morriston 2018.
  116. ^ Jantzen 2014.
  117. ^ Law 2011.

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Meister, Chad. "Philosophy of Religion". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN 2161-0002. Retrieved August 11, 2015.

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