For the book on the topic by William Lane Craig, see The Kalām Cosmological Argument.
William Lane Craig (born 1949) who revived the Kalam during the 20th and 21st century
The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic scholasticism), from which its key ideas originated. William Lane Craig was principally responsible for giving new life to the argument in the 20th century, due to his book The Kalām Cosmological Argument (1979), among other writings.
The argument's key underpinning idea is the metaphysical impossibility of actual infinities and of a temporally past-infinite universe, traced by Craig to 11th-century Persian Muslim scholastic philosopher Al-Ghazali. This feature distinguishes it from other cosmological arguments, such as that of Thomas Aquinas, which rests on the impossibility of a causally ordered infinite regress, and those of Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, which refer to the principle of sufficient reason.[1]
Since Craig's original publication, the Kalam cosmological argument has elicited public debate between Craig and Graham Oppy, Adolf Grünbaum, J. L. Mackie and Quentin Smith, and has been used in Christian apologetics.[2] According to Michael Martin, the cosmological arguments presented by Craig, Bruce Reichenbach, and Richard Swinburne are "among the most sophisticated and well argued in contemporary theological philosophy".[3]
^"Cosmological Argument". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
^Graham Smith, "Arguing about the Kalam Cosmological Argument," Philo, 5(1), 2002: 34–61. See also: Reichenbach, 2004
^Martin, 1990: 101
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