Books by Nancey Murphy

In this timely and provocative book, Nancey Murphy sets out to dispel skepticism regarding Christian belief. She argues for the rationality of Christian belief by showing that theological reasoning is similar to scientific reasoning as described by contemporary philosophy of science.

In this book, the author appropriates the term 'postmodern' to describe emerging patterns in Anglo-American thought and to indicate their radical break from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity for all areas of academia, especially philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and ethics.

Ellis and Murphy show how contemporary sciences actually support a religiously based ethic of nonviolence, not by appealing to the Enlightment's mechanismic Creator God or revelation's Father God but by discerning the transcendent ground in the laws of nature, the emergence of intelligent freedom, and the echoes of "knoetic" self-giving in cosmology and biology.

In this book, the author appropriates the term 'postmodern' to describe emerging patterns in Anglo-American thought and to indicate their radical break from the thought patterns of Enlightened modernity for all areas of academia, especially philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and ethics.

American Protestant Christianity is often described as a two-party system divided into liberals and conservatives. This book clarifies differences between the intellectual positions of these two groups by advancing the thesis that the philosophy of the modern period is largely responsible for the polarity of Protestant Christian thought.