C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea In Defense of the Argument from Reason

Name: C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea In Defense of the Argument from Reason
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ISBN: 9780830827329

ISBN-10: 0830827323

ISBN-13: 9780830827329

Edition: 2003

Authors: Victor Reppert

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Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis.Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted.Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 9/19/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Reppert (Ph. D., University of Illinois) is adjunct professor of philosophy at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona. He is active in several C. S. Lewis societies, and he has written articles on Lewis's apologetics for such journals as The Christian Scholar's Review, Philosophia Christi and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.



Preface



Taking C. S. Lewis Seriously: Apologetics and the Personal Heresy



Assessing Apologetic Arguments



Elizabeth Anscombe and the Argument from Reason




Several Formulations of the Argument from Reason



Explanatory Dualism



The Inadequacy Objection


Bibliography


Index