Christian Philosophy Conceptions, Continuations, and Challenges

J. Aaron Simmons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University. Working primarily in philosophy of religion and political philosophy, Simmons has published widely on issues concerning phenomenology, existentialism, religious existence, and democratic society and is the author of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn (2011), co-author of The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction (with Bruce Ellis Benson; 2013), and co-editor of Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life (with Michael Strawser and Stephen Minister; 2017), Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy (with Nahum Brown; 2017), Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century (with J. Edward Hackett; 2016), Reexamining Deconstruction and Determinate Religion (with Stephen Minister; 2012), and Kierkegaard and Levinas: Ethics, Politics, and Religion (with David Wood; 2008).

Foreword, Nicholas Wolterstorff
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Why This? Why Now?, J. Aaron Simmons
Part I: Conceptions
1. Advice to Christian Philosophers, Alvin Plantinga
2. Christian Philosophy: Hermeneutic or Heuristic?, Jean-Luc Marion
3. Christian Philosophy and the Christian Life, Kyla Ebels-Duggan
4. Taking Plantinga Seriously: Advice to Christian Philosophers, Merold Westphal
5. The Two-fold Task of Christian Philosophy of Religion, Bruce Ellis Benson
6. Christian Phenomenology, Kevin Hart
Part II: Continuations
7. On Divine Dedication: Philosophical Theology with Jeremy Taylor, Charles Taliaferro
8. Discerning the Spirit: The Task of Christian Philosophy", Neal DeRoo
9. Christian Philosophy and Disability Advocacy, Kevin Timpe
10. Teaching Evil, Meghan Sullivan
11. Advice for Analytic Theologians: Faith-Guided Scholarship, Trent Dougherty
Part III: Challenges
12. The Strategies of Christian Philosophy, J. Aaron Simmons
13. Christian Philosophy and Christ Crucified: Fragmentary Theory in Scandalous Power, Paul K. Moser
14. Philosophy, Religion, and Worldview, J. L. Schellenberg
15. Beyond Two-Valued Logics: A Jewish Philosopher's Take on Recent Trends in Christian Philosophy, Peter Ochs
16. Responding to Challenges, William Hasker