What Is Reality?: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Questions in Christian Philosophy)

Inman, Ross

ISBN 10: 1514006804 / ISBN 13: 9781514006801

Published by IVP Academic, 2024

About this Item

Seller Inventory # 26401988749

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Reality?: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Questions in Christian Philosophy)
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1514006804
• ISBN 13: 9781514006801
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

In this introduction to metaphysics, Ross Inman introduces us to the tradition of metaphysics in Western philosophy, what it means to do metaphysics as a Christian, and considers timeless and universal inquiries into central topics of metaphysics: identity, necessity and possibility, properties, universals, substances, and parts and wholes.

About the Authors

Ross D. Inman (PhD Trinity College Dublin) is associate professor of philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also teaches Great Books courses at the College at Southeastern and is the editor of the journal Philosophia Christi. He is a former research fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion and at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life: An Invitation to Wonder and Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar: A Neo-Aristotelian Mereology. He and his wife, Suzanne, have three children and live in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

James K. Dew Jr. (PhD, Southeastern Baptist) is associate professor of the history of ideas and philosophy and dean of the College at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coauthor (with Mark W. Foreman) of How Do We Know? An Introduction to Epistemology and coeditor (with Chad Meister) of God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain.