Christian Philosophy and the Christian Life

In this chapter, Kyla Ebels-Duggan considers how Christian philosophers should decide which questions are worth asking. She provides an interpretation and defense of Alvin Plantinga’s claim that Christian philosophers should strive for autonomy, and then argues that this rules out some ways of settling on our questions. Ebels-Duggan then suggests that the questions in which Christian philosophers should take an interest are those arising from or continuous with a distinctively Christian way of life. Along the way she argues that the power of the distinctive tools of philosophy is importantly limited: reasoning alone cannot settle either which questions we should ask or which commitments we should take on.