Few questions engage the human mind and have such timeless relevance as those to do with the origin and purpose of life. Seeking to answer such questions inevitably brings to the fore numerous disciplines—cosmology, biology, mathematics, geology, philosophy—and it therefore presents as a daunting task to comprehensively interact with, let alone challenge, the mainstream schools of thought. In his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

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William Lane Craig is a research professor in philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, California. In this article he explores the relevance of apologetics. 

In the winter of 1985 I returned from a sabbatical in Paris to find that the dean of the seminary at which I taught had decided that the program in philosophy of religion was not worth the expenditure and so had decided to eliminate the department. More than that, he was also proposing to

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Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, USA. This article is an edited extract from Christianity’s Critics: Answering the New Atheists and Other Objectors, edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig. (Broadman & Homan, 2008). Used with permission. See PDF below to download the full article.

File: Belief in God: A Trick of our Brain? (Michael Murray)

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Our 2008 New College lecturer argues for the importance of artists and artistry as witness-bearers to Christ’s redemptive engagement with us as human creatures.

We might reasonably expect artistic imagination to be counted naturally among the greatest of God’s gifts to humankind. While the precise nature of art’s effect upon us remains a subject of complexity and dispute, we hardly need a degree in aesthetics to identify the effect when it

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