Since the early 1980s there has been a philosophical turn to the analysis of Christian doctrines. Suitable for theologians, and philosophers, this textbook on the subject fosters this cross-disciplinary interest and make a literature that has developed in the professional journals and a number of monographs accessible to students.

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction - Oliver D. Crisp

I. Inspiration and Authority of Scripture
Section Introduction
Alvin Plantinga, ‘Sheehan's Shenanigans: How Theology Becomes Tomfoolery'
Stephen T. Davis, ‘The Bible is True'
Nicholas Wolterstorff, ‘True Words'
Paul Helm, ‘Infallibility'

II. The Trinity
Section Introduction
Cornelius Plantinga Jnr., ‘Social Trinity and Tritheism'
Brian Leftow, ‘A Latin Trinity'
Peter van Inwagen, ‘Three Persons in One Being: On Attempts to Show that the Doctrine of the Trinity is Self-Contradictory'

III. The Incarnation
Section Introduction
Peter Forrest, ‘The Incarnation: A Philosophical Case for Kenosis'
Eleonore Stump, ‘Aquinas' Metaphysics of the Incarnation'
Thomas P. Flint, ‘The possibilities of Incarnation: Some radical Molinist suggestions'
Thomas V. Morris, ‘Rationality and the Christian Revelation'

IV. Sin and Original Sin
Section Introduction
Robert Adams, ‘Original Sin: A Study in the Interaction of Philosophy and Theology'
Marilyn McCord Adams, ‘Sin as Uncleanness'
Keith D. Wyma, ‘Innocent Sinfulness, Guilty Sin: Original Sin and Divine Justice'

V. The Atonement
Section Introduction
Oliver D. Crisp, ‘Penal Non-substitution'
David Lewis, ‘Do We Believe in Penal Substitution?'
Philip L. Quinn, ‘Abelard on Atonement: "Nothing Unintelligible, Arbitrary, Illogical, or Immoral about it"'
Richard Swinburne, ‘The Christian Scheme of Salvation'

Index

A philosophical approach to analysing Christian doctrines has been developing since a renewal of interest in the Philosophy of Religion in the 1960s and 1970s. This books looks at this cross-disciplinary interest and the literature on ‘philosophical theology'.