Abstract

Platonism plays an important role in the Christian philosophy of J. P. Moreland. In this paper I show how Platonism can be understood within the context of Moreland's broader aims as a Christian philosopher and, in particular, as a fundamental part of his critical engagement with philosophical naturalism. To disentangle these ideas, I proceed as follows. In the first section I sketch naturalism, underscore its discord with Christian theism, and describe three lines of attack J.P. has mounted against naturalism. The third line of attack involves J.P.'s defense of Platonism; I focus on this in the subsequent section. In the final section, I tie things together by discussing how thinking about Platonism can catalyze integration.