Jesus' Resurrection: Fact or Figment?: A Debate Between William Lane Craig & Gerd Ludemann by Paul Copan & Ronald K. Tacelli

Author:Paul Copan & Ronald K. Tacelli [Copan, Paul & Tacelli, Ronald K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Religious Studies, Theology, Comparative Religion, Apologetics, Religious Studies & Reference, Christology, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles, History, Christian
ISBN: 9780830815692
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2000-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

Weyerhaeuser Professor of Biblical Literature & Professor of Religion, Emeritus Whitman College

N HIS MUCH ACCLAIMED BOOK AFTER VIRTUE, ALASDAIR MACINTYRE remarks that "the most striking feature of contemporary moral utterance is that so much of it is used to express disagreements; and the most striking feature of the debates in which these disagreements are expressed is their interminable character."' Not only are they debates that come to no resolution, but those who engage in them seem unable to enlighten each other in any appreciable way.

A Contest of Rival Virtues

Such debates and disagreements, Maclntyre suggests, have certain salient characteristics, one of which is what he calls "the conceptual incommensurability of the rival arguments." The arguments on each side of the debate are logically compelling or can be made so, and the conclusions drawn really do follow from the premises. Further, there seems to be no rational way to choose between the rival premises of such moral arguments, because they make different kinds of claims upon us (as between the rival claims of liberty and equality, for instance). Consequently debate tends to be reduced to the assertion and counterassertion of rival premises, and its tone becomes "slightly shrill."2

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