Toward Analytic Theology: An Itinerary

Abstract

In this paper I aim at explaining how analytic philosophical theology developed into a thriving field of research. In doing so, I place analytic philosophical theology into a larger intellectually narrative that is deeply influenced by the philosophy of Enlightenment. This larger framework shows that analytic philosophical theology aims at providing answers to concerns raised by a philosophical tradition that shaped fundamentally the making of our modern Western secular world.

Keywords

• analytic philosophical theology
• evidentialist objection
• verificationism
• reformed epistemology
• the rationality of religious belief