The methodological divide between systematic theologians and analytic philosophers of religion is ripe for exploration. The present volume represents an attempt to begin a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation about the value of analytic philosophical approaches to theological topics.

• Introduction


• I: In Defense of Analytic Theology


• 1: Oliver D. Crisp: On Analytic Theology


• 2: William J. Abraham: Systematic Theology as Analytic Theology


• 3: Randal Rauser: Theology as a Bull Session


• II: Historical Perspectives


• 4: John Lamont: A Conception of Faith in the Greek Fathers


• 5: Andrew Chignell: "As Kant has Shown...": Analytic (and Synthetic) Theology in the Critical Philosophy


• 6: Andrew Dole: Schleiermacher's Theological Anti-Realism


• 7: Nicholas Wolterstorff: How Philosophical Theology Became Possible Within the Analytic Tradition of Philosophy


• III: On the Data for Theology: Scripture, Reason, and Experience


• 8: Thomas McCall: Scripture as the Word of God


• 9: Thomas M. Crisp: On Believing that the Scriptures are Divinely Inspired


• 10: Michael Sudduth: The Contribution of Religious Experience to Dogmatic Theology


• 11: Michael J. Murray: Science and Religion in Constructive Engagement


• IV: Analytic Approaches Reconsidered


• 12: Eleonore Stump: The Problem of Evil


• 13: Merold Westphal: Hermeneutics and Holiness


• 14: Sarah Coakley: Dark Contemplation and Epistemic Transformation: The Analytic Theologian Re-meets Teresa of Ávila