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176Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of ReligionOxford University Press. 1991.What is the status of belief in God? Must a rational case be made or can such belief be properly basic? Is it possible to reconcile the concept of a good God with evil and suffering? In light of great differences among religions, can only one religion be true? The most comprehensive work of its kind, Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fourth edition, explores these and other perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the best in both classical and contemporary di…Read more
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Miracles and Naturalistic ExplanationsIn Robert A. Larmer (ed.), Questions of Miracle, Carleton University Press. pp. 83-87. 1996.
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1Miracles as Evidence for TheismIn Robert A. Larmer (ed.), Questions of Miracle, Carleton University Press. pp. 93-95. 1996.
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10Religious Tolerance Through Humility: Thinking with Philip QuinnRoutledge. 2008.While many ground religious tolerance on a sense of unity or enrichment resulting from religious diversity, the acclaimed scholars contributing to this volume place under scrutiny a fascinating alternative proposal for a pathway to religious tolerance: that the serious consideration of religious diversity tends to reveal the weakness of support many have for their religious commitments and that the humility produced tends to result in religious tolerance. The authors illuminate the debate within…Read more
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12Religious Diversity: A Philosophical AssessmentRoutledge. 2002.Religious diversity exists whenever seemingly sincere, knowledgeable individuals hold incompatible beliefs on the same religious issue. Diversity of this sort is pervasive, existing not only across basic theistic systems but also within these theistic systems themselves. Religious Diversity explores the breadth and significance of such conflict. Examining the beliefs of various theistic systems, particularly within Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism, Basinger discusses seemingly incomp…Read more
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43The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of GodDowners Grove: Intervarsity Press. 1994.Written by five scholars whose expertise extends across the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic, and philosophical theology, this is a careful and ...
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17MiraclesCambridge University Press. 2018.This book is a critical overview of the manner in which the concept of miracle is understood and discussed in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. In its most basic sense, a miracle is an unusual, unexpected, observable event brought about by direct divine intervention. The focus of this study is on the key conceptual, epistemological, and theological issues that this definition of the miraculous continues to raise. As this topic is of existential as well as theoretical interest to many…Read more
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6Feminism and EpistemologyJournal of Philosophical Research 17 29-37. 1992.There have been many calls recently for philosophers to rethink what philosophy is and how it should be practiced. Among the most vocal critics is an influential group of feminist philosophers who argue that since current philosophical activity is based primarily on a conception of reason that is both inherently inadequate and oppressive to women, it is imperative that our understanding of the nature and practice of philosophy be significantly modified. I argue that this criticism is fundamental…Read more
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17Logical Positivism in Perspective. Edited by Barry Gower (review)Modern Schoolman 67 (2): 163-164. 1990.
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38Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends. By Richard E. Grandy and Richard Warner (review)Modern Schoolman 65 (2): 137-138. 1988.
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49Feminism and EpistemologyJournal of Philosophical Research 17 29-37. 1992.There have been many calls recently for philosophers to rethink what philosophy is and how it should be practiced. Among the most vocal critics is an influential group of feminist philosophers who argue that since current philosophical activity is based primarily on a conception of reason that is both inherently inadequate and oppressive to women, it is imperative that our understanding of the nature and practice of philosophy be significantly modified. I argue that this criticism is fundamental…Read more
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19Divine Knowledge and Divine Control: A Response to Gordon and SadowskyReligious Studies 26 (2). 1990.
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39Miracles, Evil and Justified Belief: Further ClarificationSophia 34 (2). 1995.In an ongoing dialogue, Robert Larmer and I have been discussing whether the undisputed occurrence of certain conceivable events--for instance, astonishing healings--could require all honest, thoughtful individuals to acknowledge that God has supernaturally intervened in earthly affairs. I have not denied that a theist could justifiably consider the occurrence of certain possible (or even actual) events to be strong evidence for theism. But in this essay I continue to deny that the occurrence of…Read more
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9Bibliography: Recent Work on MolinismIn Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--303. 2011.
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39I What is a miracle?In Graham H. Twelftree (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, Cambridge University Press. pp. 19. 2011.
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108Why Petition an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Wholly Good God?Religious Studies 19 (1). 1983.Orthodox Christian theists frequently petition God in the sense that they ask him to bring about some state of affairs which they believe may not occur without divine intervention. Such petitions basically fall into three categories: requests in which the petitioner is asking God to influence significantly the natural environment – e.g. calm a hurricane, requests in which the petitioner is asking God to influence significantly the lives ofother individuals – e.g. reconcile the broken marriage of…Read more
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9Griffin and Pike on Divine PowerPhilosophy Research Archives 10 347-352. 1984.David Griffin and Nelson Pike recently had a spirited discussion on divine power. The essence of the discussion centered around what was labelled Premise X: “It is possible for one actual being's condition to be completely determined by a being or beings other than itself.” Pike maintains that ‘traditional’ theists have affirmed Premise X but denies that this entails that God has all the power there is and thus denies that Premise X can be considered incoherent for this reason. Griffin maintains…Read more
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77The challenge of religious diversity: A middle groundSophia 38 (1): 41-53. 1999.So where does all this leave us? The reality of religious diversity, I have argued, does notnecessitate the rejection of exclusivism. But this does not end the discussion, as some apparently believe. The reality of religious diversity, I have also argued, does justifiably remainfor many a significant challenge to exclusivistic thought and practice
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16Evil and a Finite GodPhilosophy Research Archives 13 285-287. 1987.P.J. McGrath has recently challenged the standard claim that to escape the problem of evil one need only alter one’s conception of God by limiting his power or his goodness. If we assume that God is infinitely good but not omnipotent, then God can scarcely be a proper object of worship. And if we assume that if God is omnipotent but limited in goodness, he becomes a moral monster. Either way evil remains a problem for theistic belief. I argue that McGrath fails to distinguish between the deducti…Read more