William Lane Craig on Christianity and Philosophy of Religion | Episode 12

Professor William Lane Craig is a world-renowned theologian and philosopher of religion. He authored dozens of books on these topics, including The Kalām Cosmological Argument (1979), God Over All (2016), The Atonement (2018), In Quest of the Historical Adam (2021) and many others. Besides his academic scholarship, Professor Craig is internationally known for his debates with various academic and popular atheists such as Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss, Sam Harris, Peter Millican, Arif Ahmed and many others.

You can find more details about Prof. Craig’s works on his public website: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/ 

Conversation Outline: 

00:00 Guest Introduction
01:19 William Lane Craig’s Debating Career
03:03 Best opponent
05:26 How is the winner usually determined? 
06:15 Having a PhD in both Theology and Philosophy
07:56 Who has the burden of proof: theists or atheists? 
10:30 Species of atheism
15:50 Theology versus Philosophy of Religion
20:14 Why is theism not so popular amongst mainstream philosophers? 
22:40 What is the view that you defend? 
24:26 Do arguments for the existence of God distract attention from God? 
26:40 What about divine hiddenness? 
30:48 The Kalam Cosmological Argument
32:58 Why does the Cosmological Argument prove that a personal creator?
34:38 Why does the Cosmological Argument point towards an unembodied mind? 
42:42 The universe began to exist: an argument based on Infinity
45:55 Hilbert’s Hotel
51:23 Proving that the Christian God exists after proving that the God of the Philosophers exists

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