Recent Publications of Alan G. Padgett:
Books:
(edited with Patrick Keifert), But is it all True? The Bible and the Question of Truth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.
(with Sally Bruyneel) Introducing Christianity Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2003.
(with three co-authors), God and Time: Four Views, ed. Greg Ganssle. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2001.
(with Steven Wilkens), Christianity and Western Thought, vol. II: Faith and Reason in the Nineteenth Century Downers Grove: InterVarsity Pr., 2000.
(editor) Reason and the Christian Religion, Essays in honour of Richard Swinburne Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
God, Eternity and the Nature of Time. "Library of Philosophy and Religion", ed. John Hick, London: Macmillan, 1992. Paperback, Wipf & Stock, 2000.
(editor), The Mission of the Church in Methodist Perspective, The World is My Parish "Studies in the History of Missions", v. 10, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
Video Series
Biology and Belief: Conversations on Faith and Science. St. Paul, MN: Luther Productions, 2004.
Chapters in Books: (last ten years)
"'I am the Truth:' An Understanding of Truth from Christology for Scripture," in But is it all True? The Bible and the Question of Truth, ed. Padgett and Keifert. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.
"The Relationship between Theology and Philosophy: Constructing a Christian Worldview," in For Faith and Clarity: Philosophical Contributions to Christian Theology, ed. James K. Beilby. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.
"The History of the Idea of the Laws of Nature," in Dio, la Natura e la Legge, ed. S. Moriggi and E. Sindoni. Milan: Angelicum, 2005.
"The Three-fold Sense of Scripture: An Evangelical Grammar for Theological Hermeneutics," in Semper Reformandum: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock, ed. S. E. Porter and A. R. Cross. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2003.
"Theology as Worship: The Place of Theology in a Postmodern University," Ancient and Postmodern Christianity: Essays in Honor of Thomas C. Oden, ed. K. Tanner and C. Hall. Dowers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
"Divine Foreknowledge
and the Arrow of Time: On the Impossibility of Retrocausation," God and Time,
ed. Greg Ganssle. Oxford: Oxford Univ.
Pr., 2001.
"Putting Reason in its Place: Wesleyan Theology or Ontotheology?," Thy Nature and Thy Name is Love: Wesleyan Theology and Process Philosophy in Dialogue, ed. Bryan Stone and Thomas Oord. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2001. On the Web at my home page.
" Religion
and Science in Christian Perspective," The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosophy
and Religious Studies, vol. I., ed Mel Stewart and Zang Zhigang. Bethesda,
MD: International Scholars Pub., 1997. On the Web at my home page.
"Advice for Religious
Historians, On the Myth of a Purely Historical Jesus," in The
Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Resurrection of Jesus,
ed. Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall and Gerald O'Collins. Oxford: Oxford Univ.
Pr., 1997. On the Web at my home
page.
"Ethical Values through
Religious Studies: Beyond the Western Myth of Scientific Neutrality" (in
Chinese), Mel Steward and Zang Zhigang, eds., East & West: Essays in
Sino-American Philosophy and Religion Beijing, China: Central Compilation
& Translation Press, 1997. Now available in English, with the same editors,
under the title, The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosophy and Religious
Studies, vol. III (Bethesda, MD: International Scholars Publ, 2000). On
the Web at my home page.
"A New Doctrine of
Eternity," in Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology of Contemporary
Views, ed. M. Y. Stewart. Boston, Jones & Bartlett, 1996.
"The Christian College and the
Reign of God: Reflections on Multiculturalism in Reply to Richard Slimbach," in In Search of Unity, ed. Annette Kakimoto. Azusa:
Azusa Pacific University, 1996.
Longer Articles:
“Religion and the Physical Sciences,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Donald Borchurt. 10 vols. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
“Philosophy of Science” and “Science and Theology,” in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, ed.Erwin Fahlbusch, et al. 8 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005
"'What is Truth?' On the Meaning of our Confession that Scripture is True," Canadian Evangelical Review 29 (2005), 5-14
“Theologia Naturalis: Philosophy of Religion or Doctrine of Creation?,” Faith and Philosophy 21 (2004), 493-503.
"Crucified Creator: The God of Evolution and Luther’s Theology of the Cross," Dialog 42 (2003), 300-304.
"Beginning with the End in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16," Priscilla Papers 17/3 (Summer, 2003), 17-23.
"Christianity, Evangelical, Issues in Science and Religion," in Wentzel van Huyssteen, ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2003), 1:121-123.
"Dialectical Realism in
Theology and Science," Perspectives on Science and
Christian Faith 54 (2002), 184-192.
"The Body in Resurrection: Science and Scripture on the ‘Spiritual Body,’" Word and World 22 (2002), 155-163.
"Is God Masculine? A
Response to Touchstone Magazine," Priscilla Papers
16/4 (Fall 2002), 16-19; reprinted in Touchstone Magazine 16/1 (Jan.-Feb.
2003), 41-45. On the Touchstone web page at:
http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/issues/16.1docs/16-1pg41.html.
"What is Biblical
Equality?," Priscilla Papers 16/3 (Summer 2002), 22-25.
On the Web at the CBE site:
www.cbeinternational.org. (click on Free Articles).
"Testing Models of the
Incarnation: From Revelation to Historical Criticism," Journal for Christian
Theological Research 6:1 (2001). On the Web at the
JCTR
site.
"God the Lord of Time: A
Third Model of Eternity as Relative Timelessness," Philosophia Christi,
2 (2000), 11-20.
"Major Review
Essay: Paul Anderson, Christology of the Fourth Gospel", Review of
Biblical Literature 1 (1999), 56-61.
"Marcion", Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its
Development ed. Ralph Martin and Peter Davids (Downer's Grove: InterVarsity Pr., 1997).
"The Mutuality of
Theology and Science," Christian Scholar's Review 26 (1996),
12-35. On the Web at my web page.
"Christianity and
Postmodernity," Christian Scholar's Review 26 (1996), 128-133 (on the Web at: CSR Web Site.)
"The Scholarship
of Patriarchy (on 1 Timothy 2,8-15), A Response to Women in the Church,
eds. Köstenberger, Schreiner and Baldwin," Priscilla Papers 11/1
(Wint., 1996), 24-28. (On the Web at the Christians for Biblical Equality site: http://www.cbeinternational.org/pdffiles/winter97/scholarshipofpatriarchy.pdf)
You can also read my "Spot: Light on Science" columns for The Cresset on my Web page: