{"id":10212,"date":"2012-10-11T16:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:29:47","slug":"baylor-philosophy-profs-book-wins-prestigious-c-s-lewis-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/10\/baylor-philosophy-profs-book-wins-prestigious-c-s-lewis-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor philosophy prof&#8217;s book wins prestigious C.S. Lewis prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"evansbook-oct12\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/evansbook-oct12.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Signs and Knowledge of God\" width=\"170\" \/>It&#8217;s saying a lot to say a book is the best in its field of the past five years. But that&#8217;s exactly what judges named a 2010 effort by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/philosophy\/index.php?id=001938\" target=\"_blank\">Dr.\u00a0C. Stephen Evans<\/a>, a philosophy and humanities professor in Baylor&#8217;s College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Evans&#8217; work,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Natural-Signs-Knowledge-God-Arguments\/dp\/0199217165\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Signs and the Knowledge of God: A New Look at Theistic Arguments<\/a><\/em>, was named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/mediacommunications\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=122141\" target=\"_blank\">the best published book of the last five years in the fields of\u00a0philosophy of religion or philosophical theology<\/a> by the folks\u00a0behind the C.S. Lewis Book Prize Competition. <em>Natural Signs<\/em> is a sequel of sorts to one of Evans&#8217; previous books,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Believe-Reason-Mystery-Pointers\/dp\/0802801277\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1349797538&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Why+Believe%3F+Reason+and+Mystery+as+Pointers+to+God\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Why Believe? Reason and Mystery as Pointers to God<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the honor,\u00a0given by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stthomas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of St. Thomas<\/a>\u00a0in St. Paul, Minn.,\u00a0Evans received a cash award of $15,000 (funded by a generous grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templeton.org\" target=\"_blank\">John Templeton Foundation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Evans came to Baylor in 2001 as a professor in the Department of Philosophy. He is an internationally recognized scholar whose main intellectual interest has been the work of the Danish philosopher and theologian, Soren Kierkegaard.<\/p>\n<p>Sic\u00a0\u2019em, Dr. Evans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s saying a lot to say a book is the best in its field of the past five years. But that&#8217;s exactly what judges named a 2010 effort by Dr.\u00a0C. Stephen Evans, a philosophy and humanities professor in Baylor&#8217;s College of Arts and Sciences. Evans&#8217; work,\u00a0Natural Signs and the Knowledge of God: A New Look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}