Trinity College

    Publications by Cliff Williams, PhD

    Books:

    Free Will and Determinism: A Dialogue (Hackett Publishing Co., 1980)

    Singleness of Heart: Restoring the Divided Soul (Eerdmans Publishing Co.,1994; Regent College Publishing, 2001)

    On Love and Friendship: Philosophical Readings (Jones and Bartlett Publishers,1995; Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1997)

    With All that We Have, Why Aren't We Satisfied? (Sorin Books, 2001)

    The Life of the Mind: A Christian Perspective (Baker Academic, 2002)  Excerpt

    Daybreakers (Sorin Books, 2002)

    One More Train to Ride: The Underground World of Modern American Hoboes (Indiana University Press, 2003)

    Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

    The Wisdom of Kierkegaard: A Collection of Quotations on Faith and Life (Wipf & Stock, 2009)

    The Divided Soul: A Kierkegaardian Exploration (Wipf & Stock, 2009)

    Articles:

    "Does God Exist Successively?" The Personalist, XLIX (Spring, 1968), 197-214

    "'Now', Extensional Interchangeability, and the Passage of Time," The Philosophical Forum, V (Spring, 1974), 405-423

    "Meaning, Reference, and Tense," Analysis, XXXVI (March, 1976), 132-136

    "Encouraging Student Creativity," Journal for the Improvement of Instruction, III (Spring, 1976), 16

    "Pure Becoming and the Concept of Time," The Personalist, LVIII (January, 1977), 52-58

    "The Irrelevance of Nonmaterial Minds," Christian Scholar's Review, XII (1983), 310-323

    "Indeterminism and the Theory of Agency," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XLV (September, 1984), 111-119

    "Teaching Virtues and Vices," Philosophy Today, 33 (Fall, 1989), 195-203

    "The Date-Analysis of Tensed Sentences," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70 (June, 1992), 198-203; reprinted in The New Theory of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander and Quentin Smith (Yale University Press, 1994), 104-110

    "The Phenomenology of B-Time," The Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXX (Summer, 1992), 123-137; reprinted in The New Theory of Time, edited by L. Nathan Oaklander and Quentin Smith (Yale University Press,1994), 360-372

    "Kierkegaardian Suspicion and Properly Basic Beliefs," Religious Studies, 30 (September, 1994), 261-267

    "Christian Materialism and the Parity Thesis," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 39 (February,1996), 1-14

    "The Metaphysics of A- and B-Time," The Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (July,1996), 371-381

    "A Bergsonian Approach to A- and B-Time," Philosophy, 73 (July,1998), 379-393

    "B-Time Transition," Philosophical Inquiry, 20 (Summer-Fall, 1998), 59-63

    "Topic Neutrality and the Mind-Body Problem," Religious Studies, 36 (June, 2000), 203-207

    "Beyond A- and B-Time," Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel, 31 (October, 2003), 75-91

    Articles in Christian magazines:

    "The Other Side of State Street," The Reformed Journal (January, 1977), 4-5

    "Gears, Bearings, and the Like," The Reformed Journal (February, 1977), 5-6

    "Roots and Reparations," The Reformed Journal (September, 1977), 3-5

    "Not Your Usual Christmas Card," The Covenant Companion (December 15, 1977), 6-7

    "Jobs and God," The Reformed Journal (May, 1979), 16; reprinted in Young Adult Ministries Newsletter (July, 1980) and in The Christian Leader (September 8, 1981), 8

    "Bombs and Taxes," The Reformed Journal (July, 1980), 5

    "God’s Clowns," The Evangelical Beacon (February 1, 1983), 14

    "'I Cannot Accept God's Forgiveness'," Seek (June 26, 1983), 2-3

    "Affluence, Power and Violence," Mennonite Brethren Herald (March 9, 1984), 32

    "Vulnerable People--Victims Forever?" The Marian Helpers Bulletin (October-December, 1984), 21

    "A Case for the Christian College," The Evangelical Beacon (September 2, 1985), 24-25

    "The Man with the Crooked Head," The A. M. E. Zion Quarterly Review (October, 1986), 23-25

    "Silence," Christian Standard (November 23, 1986), 14-15

    "When Mercy Hurts," Christianity Today (February 3, 1989), 16-19

    "Visit Leaves Indelible Mark," The A. M. E. Zion Quarterly Review (July, 1989), 46-47

    "Moral Beauty," Spirituality Today, 42 (Spring, 1990), 4-14; reprinted in Catholic Digest (August, 1990), 44-48

    "Spiritual Handicaps," The Standard Bearer, 26 (No. 4, 1990), 15 (coauthor)

    "Listening," Faith at Work, 103 (March/April, 1991), 10

    "Pretending, Self-Justification, and Grace," Best Sermons 4 (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 258-263

    "Is Christianity Reasonable?" Pulpit Digest, 75 (September/October, 1994) 68-74


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