ABSTRACT

Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology, and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm’s life’s work, Reason in the Service of Faith brings together a range of his essays which reflect these central concerns of his thought.

Over thirty of Helm's selected essays and four unpublished articles are gathered into five parts: Metaphilosophical Issues; Action, Change, and Personal Identity; Epistemology; God; and Creation, Providence, and Prayer. The volume is prefaced with a short editorial introduction, and ends with an extensive bibliography of Helm’s published works.

Demonstrating the important connection between Helm’s theological and philosophical interests across his body of work, this collection is a remarkable resource for scholars of religion, philosophy, and theology.

part 1|52 pages

Metaphilosophical Issues

chapter 1|4 pages

On Pancritical Irrationalism

chapter 2|8 pages

Understanding Scholarly Presuppositions

chapter 3|12 pages

The Perfect and the Particular

chapter 4|5 pages

A Plea for Objectivity

chapter 5|21 pages

Anthropomorphism Protestant Style

Two Current Approaches

part 2|40 pages

Action, Change and Personal Identity

chapter 6|5 pages

Pretending and Intending

chapter 7|2 pages

Pike on Prior on Action

chapter 8|4 pages

Are 'Cambridge' Changes Non-events?

chapter 9|5 pages

Detecting Change

chapter 11|11 pages

Locke's Theory of Personal Identity

part 3|119 pages

Epistemology

chapter 12|9 pages

Revealed Propositions and Timeless Truths

chapter 13|14 pages

Locke on Faith and Knowledge

chapter 15|14 pages

Two Ideas of Revelation

chapter 16|9 pages

Speaking and Revealing

chapter 17|11 pages

The Indispensability of Belief to Religion

chapter 20|15 pages

Faith, Evidence and the Scriptures

part 4|115 pages

God

chapter 21|8 pages

God and Whatever Comes to Pass

chapter 22|8 pages

Grace and Causation

chapter 23|10 pages

God and Spacelessness

chapter 24|12 pages

The Impossibility of Divine Passibility

chapter 25|9 pages

Omniscience and Eternity

chapter 26|6 pages

Divine Timeless Eternity

chapter 27|23 pages

The Augustinian-Calvinist View

chapter 28|11 pages

Eternal Creation

chapter 29|12 pages

The Problem of Dialogue

chapter 30|14 pages

Divine Causation and Analogy

part 5|106 pages

Creation, Providence and Prayer

chapter 31|8 pages

Universalism and the Threat of Hell

chapter 32|6 pages

Asking God

chapter 33|10 pages

Prayer and Providence

chapter 34|6 pages

Preserving Perseverance

chapter 35|13 pages

Providence and Compatibilism

chapter 36|13 pages

The Plan of God

chapter 37|10 pages

Starting to Be and Ceasing to Be

chapter 38|13 pages

Can God Love the World?

chapter 39|10 pages

All Things Considered

Providence and Divine Purpose

chapter 40|15 pages

Of God's Eternal Decree