Claiming God

“This is a wonderful book and a must-read for anyone interested in theology or the philosophy of religion. Engaging with and building on the work of Marilyn McCord Adams, one of the great contemporary theologians and historians of philosophy, it explores fundamental issues about God, love, evil, and community in both contemporary and historical settings. It is a little library in itself! Tolle et lege!”


—Calvin Normore, University of California, Los Angeles





“It’s hard to imagine a better set of contributors for a volume in honor of a more luminous thinker and teacher than Marilyn McCord Adams. These essays combine, as she did, philosophical acumen with a pastoral sensibility that knows that the intellectual life is an end in itself and must also be oriented toward the needs of bodies that think, desire, love, and die.”


—Linn Marie Tonstad, Yale Divinity School





“Marilyn McCord Adams was one of the most innovative, courageous, and influential philosophical theologians of the past half century. This collection of work by her students, friends, and colleagues is a fitting tribute to McCord Adams’s monumental contributions on topics ranging from the intricacies of medieval philosophy to the challenges posed by horrendous evils to our sense of life’s meaning. Philosophers, theologians, and anyone seeking to understand the existential challenges raised by suffering will want to read this book.”


—Andrew Chignell, Princeton University