2015/07/09 by Benjamin Victor Waters · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Islamic Studies and History #Islamic Thought and Society Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/23311983.2015.1062461
openalex publication_date 2015/07/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/22
William Lane Craig has revived interest in the medieval kalām argument to the point where it is now one of the most discussed arguments for God’s existence in the secondary literature. Still, the reception of Craig’s argument among philosophers of religion has been mostly critical. In the interest of developing an argument that more philosophers of religion would be inclined to support, I will lay the philosophical groundwork for a new kalām cosmological argument that, in contrast with Craig’s argument, does not adopt such controversial positions as the dynamic theory of time and the metaphysical impossibility of an actual infinite.