STUDIES IN A CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW

Studies in a Christian World View, sponsored by the INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CHRISTIAN STUDIES and developed under the editorial direction of Carl F. H. Henry, is a series of books offering Christian perspectives on the world of learning. Written by highly qualified evangelical authors, the books are intended for thinking Chris- lians who are attempting to articulate a Christian world view in contrast to current non-Christian world views.

Subject areas covered by the series include psychology, economics, natural science, Eastern religions, the arts, history, contemporary concepts of God, and literature.

CHRISTIANITY AND PHILOSOPHY

Keith E. Yandell

An exercise in the philosophy of religion, this second volume in the IFACS series is concerned with theism in general and Christianity as one kind of theism in particular. The basic question in the philosophy of religion, writes Kelth Yandell, is whether religious claims can be rationally assessed and, if so, how Yandell argues that they can be - that, in other words, theism is either true, or it is false. He argues further that there is reason to think theism is true.

Addressing his argument to readers with some background in philosophy, Yandell considers such questions as these: Do the tradi tional arguments show that God exists? Do religious claims have trut value? is the existence of evil evidence against the existence of God? How are religion and morality related?

Finally, Vandell offers a set of principles to test the validity of both religious and nonreligious conceptual systems, and he concludes tha Christianity passes all of the tests suggested by these principles

KEITH E. YANDELL is Professor of Philosophy and South Asian Studies at. the University of Wisconsin-Madison