Thorough and Excellent

I highly recommend this volume, both as a primer in the field of philosophy and as a fairly comprehensive defense of the philosophical foundations of the Christian worldview, as the title indicates. The authors take definitive (and highly defensible) stands on a huge array of philosophical issues that cannot be ignored in the intellectual adventure of integrating Christian theology with the perennial search for wisdom and the truth of things. But in so doing, they also bring the reader up to speed on virtually the entire range of key issues in first-order philosophical disciplines (logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics) as well as crucially important (for the integration of theology with other bodies of knowledge) second-order disciplines like philosophy of science and philosophical theology. In so doing, they also effectively demonstrate the almost ridiculous lengths that philosophers in both first and second order disciplines have gone to accommodate a prior commitment to physicalism or philosophical naturalism, views which are incredibly difficult to square with reflection on human experience and our knowledge of the world.

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