New monographs on the philosophy of religion

We are excited to announce the publication of two new monographs in our series Continuum Studies in Philosophy of Religion!

God's Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism


In God's Final Victory, authors John Kronen (Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, USA) and Eric Reitan (Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, USA) address one of Christianity's oldest controversies, reasoning that the doctrine of universal salvation is ultimately more philosophically defensible than the doctrine of hell. Kronen and Reitan's arguments are both novel and compelling, and their book is a major achievement that will shape theological discussions of universalism for years to come.

"No philosopher or theologian who in the future addresses the issue of universalism will be able to ignore the arguments of this book, and even many parishioners in the pew, however impatient they may be with finely drawn philosophical distinctions, will benefit greatly from it."
-- Thomas Talbott (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willamette University, USA)

"This is the state of the art of argument in support of universalism, and should be taken into account in any discussion of it."
-- Keith E. Yandell (Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

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The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God: A Defense of Holistic Empiricism

 
The Rainbow of Experiences, Critical Trust, and God argues against traditional empiricist epistemologies to make the case for the value and validity of religious experience. Author Kai-man Kwan (Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China) both defends and recasts Richard Swinburne's Principle of Credulity as the Principle of Critical Trust in order to highlight the need for balancing trust and criticism and suggest a new approach to both religious experience and epistemology in general.

"The argument to God ‘from religious experience’ is often presented as an argument from a very peculiar type of experience which religious people have, quite unlike our other experiences. This book is unique in describing so comprehensively and within one volume the data of many different kinds of related human experience, data often hard to describe and so easy to neglect. It thus locates the ‘argument from religious experience’ within a rich and deep background, which brings it to life and makes it much more plausible. I am very happy to commend this wide-ranging book, to what I hope will be a wide-ranging public."
-- from the foreword by Richard Swinburne, FBA (Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, UK)