Over the past sixty years, within the analytic tradition of philosophy, there has been a significant revival of interest in the philosophy of religion. More recently, philosophers of religion have turned in a more self-consciously interdisciplinary direction, with special focus on topics that have traditionally been the provenance of systematic theologians in the Christian tradition. The present volumes Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology, volumes 1 and 2aim to bring together some of the most important essays on six central topics in recent philosophical theology. Volume 1 collects essays on three distinctively Christian doctrines: trinity, incarnation, and atonement. Volume 2 focuses on three topics that arise in all of the major theistic religions: providence, resurrection, and scripture.

Michael Rea is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame.

• I: Providence


• 1: Thomas P. Flint: Two Accounts fo Providence


• 2: Timothy O'Connor: The Impossibility of Middle Knowledge


• 3: William Lane Craig: Middle Knowledge, Truth-Makers, and the Grounding Objection


• 4: David P. Hunt: Divine Providence and Simple Foreknowledge


• 5: Peter van Inwagen: The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God


• II: Scripture and Revelation


• 6: Richard Swinburne: Revelation


• 7: William J.Abraham: The Concept of Inspiration


• 8: William Lane Craig: "Men Moved by the Holy Spirit Spoke from God" (2 Peter 1:21): A Middle Knowledge Perspective on Biblical Inspiration


• 9: James A. Keller: Accepting the Authority of the Bible: Is It Rationally Justified?


• 10: Albert C. Sundberg, Jr.: The Bible Canon and the Christian Doctrine of Inspiration


• 11: Nicholas Wolterstorff: The Unity Behind the Canon


• 12: Eleonore Stump: Visits to the Sepulcher and Biblical Exegesis


• 13: Alvin Plantinga: Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship


• 14: Evan Fales: Reformed Epistemology and Biblical Hermeneutics


• III. Materialism and the Resurrection of the Dead


• 15: Peter van Inwagen: The Possibility of Resurrection


• 16: Dean W. Zimmerman: The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The Falling Elevator' Model


• 17: Lynne Rudder Baker: Need a Christian be a Mind/Body Dualist?


• 18: Trenton Merricks: The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting


• 19: Alvin Plantinga: Against Materialism