Naturalism, naturalism by other means, and alternatives to naturalism

Theology and Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-237

  Porter, Andrew P ^a  

^a Graduate Theological Union   (United States)

Author keywords

Alvin Plantinga; C. S. Lewis; Divine Action; Dualism; Human Action; Merold Westphal; Naturalism; Naturalistic Fallacy; Phillip Johnson; Supernatural; William P. Alston

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924140148     PISSN: 14746700     EISSN: 14746719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1474670032000124612     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. C. S. Lewis, Miracles: A Preliminary Study (New York: Macmillan, 1947).
2. Phillip Johnson, Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law, and Education (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1995).
3. J. Wesley Robbins, "Is Naturalism Irrational?", available online at: http://www.iusb.edu/%7Ewrobbins/Essays/plantinga.html
4. Charley D. Hardwick, Events of Grace: Naturalism, Existentialism, and Theology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
5. David Ray Griffin, Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Overcoming the Conflicts (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000).
6. Andrew P. Porter, "Science, Religious Language, and Analogy," in Faith and Philosophy 13, no. 1 (1996/01): 113-120.
7. Andrew P. Porter, Elementary Monotheism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001), chapters 6-9.
8. Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return, or, Cosmos and History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954 and 1991).
9. Merold Westphal, God, Guilt, and Death (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).
10. Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (Garden City: Doubleday, 1967), chapter 5.
11. H. Richard Niebuhr, Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (New York: Harper and Row, 1970).
12. Luther H. Martin, Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
13. Eliade E, in Cosmos and History, chs. 3 and 4
14. Andrew P. Porter, Elementary Monotheism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001), section 7.3.
15. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of Nature (London: Oxford University Press, 1945).
16. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory 2nd edition (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975), 2.
17. William A. Wallace, Causality and Scientific Explanation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1972).
18. Events of Grace: Naturalism, Existentialism, and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1996), 5.
19. Paul Gwynne, Special Divine Action: Key Issues in the Contemporary Debate (1965-1995) Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1996;
20. Andrew P. Porter, By the Waters of Naturalism: Theology Perplexed Among the Sciences (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001), section 2.3.
21. Andrew P. Porter, "Material Differences Between History and Nature,” in International Philosophical Quarterly, in press.
22. R. G. Collingwood, Essay on Metaphysics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), chapters 29-33.
23. Robert T. Pennock, Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999);
24. Doron Nof and Nathan Paldor, "Are There Oceanographic Explanations for the Israelites' Crossing of the Red Sea?” in Bull Am Meteorological Soc 73, no. 3 (1992 March): 305-314.
25. Jitse M. van der Meer, ed. Facets of Faith and Science, vol. 1 (The Pascal Center for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science; Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996), 177-221.
26. Andrew P. Porter, "Science, Religious Language, and Analogy” in Faith and Philosophy 13, no. 1 (1996/01): 113-120.
27. David B. Burrell, Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986), esp. 16-18.
28. Doris T. Myers, C. S. Lewis in Context (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1994)
29. Andrew P. Porter and Edward C. Hobbs, "The Trinity and the Indo-European Tripartite Worldview” in Budhi (Manila), 3, nos. 2 and 3 (1999): 1-28;
30. Andrew P. Porter, Elementary Monotheism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001), I and II.