Author: Nancey Murphy

Contributors to Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition use Alasdair Mac Intyre’s work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradition. These essays are grouped in thre …

A Philosophy of the Christian Religion offers a new kind of introduction to the subject. Whereas most introductions in the past have attempted to deal with religion in general, this book focuses on p …

Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophical …

A collection of essays by experts in the field, exploring how nature works at every level to produce more complex and highly organized objects, systems, and organisms from much simpler components, an …

If humans are purely physical, and if it is the brain that does the work formerly assigned to the mind or soul, then how can it fail to be the case that all of our thoughts and actions are determined …

The term ‘postmodern’ is generally used to refer to current work in philosophy, literary criticism, and feminist thought inspired by Continental thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derri …

The term ‘postmodern’ is generally used to refer to current work in philosophy, literary criticism, and feminist thought inspired by Continental thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derri …

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Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always b …

Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always b …

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems …

James Wm. Mc Clendon, Jr. was the most important ‘baptist’ theologian of the twentieth century. Mc Clendon crafted a systematic theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, gre …

James Wm. Mc Clendon, Jr. was the most important ‘baptist’ theologian of the twentieth century. Mc Clendon crafted a systematic theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, gre …

Each field of study comes with its own set of questions; each period of time refines and redirects those questions. The Christian religion as we find it in the twenty-first century presents a unique …