Welcome to a very special podcast. We are privileged to have both Dr. William Langcrag and Dr.

J. P. Morlin at the same time today. This is the 20th anniversary of the book, Philosophical

Foundations for a Christian World View. Before we jump into the book and we're going to look at

some of the highlights of the book and talk about some of the background things that went into

this writing, 20 years. Let's talk about your long relationship as friends and colleagues. Dr.

Craig, how did the two of you meet? Well, I had heard of J. P. Morlin for many, many years before

I ever had the opportunity to actually meet him in person. In Campus Crusade for Christ Circles,

the name of J. P. Morlin was legendary and so Jan and I were familiar with this man long before

we met him. Now, Jan and I moved to Europe for quite a number of years. We lived in Belgium for

about seven and a half years and I can't remember that I ever met J. P. during that time. I'll have

to defer to him. I'm not sure I met him before we actually began to collaborate at Talbot School

of Theology. So J. P. Do you have any recollection of our first meeting? You know, I don't

that's different from yours. I do recall the first time I think I discovered you in person.

I believe that it was 1973. Oh, at the Institute of Biblical Studies and that's a summer training

camp for Campus Crusade, now crew, staff members and there was an elective on the existence of God

and I believe it was taught by J. Edwin Orr if I'm not mistaken. He was a well-known historian

and had almost as many degrees as Bill, but I remember sitting in that class and I was the sort

of staff member that read Rudolf Boltmann and read atheist literature and most of my staff

friends just weren't into that and so it was a fairly small class and I can remember there was this

one guy and every time he asked a question I thought to myself, now that is a darn good question.

I was thinking similarly or else not, but I just felt a kindred spirit with him and I don't think

that I introduced myself to him at that time, but I made note of who he was and I recognized that

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