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20Providence, Middle Knowledge, and the Grounding ObjectionPhilosophia Christi 3 (2): 447-457. 2001.
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91OmniscienceIn Thomas P. Flint & Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology, Oxford University Press. 2008.Omniscience is the divine attribute of possessing complete or unlimited knowledge. This article examines motivations for taking such a property to be a divine attribute, attempts to define or analyse omniscience, possible limitations on the extent of divine knowledge, and, finally, objections either to the coherence of the concept or to its compatibility with other divine attributes or with widely accepted claims.
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169Trinity and PolytheismFaith and Philosophy 21 (3): 281-294. 2004.This paper develops an interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity, drawn from Augustine and the Athanasian Creed. Such a doctrine includes divinity claims (the persons are divine), diversity claims (the persons are distinct), and a uniqueness claim (there is only one God). I propose and defend an interpretation of these theses according to which they are neither logically incompatible nor do they do entail that there are three (or four) gods
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129Augustinian perfect being theology and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and JacobInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 69 (2): 139-151. 2011.All of the ingredients for what has become known as Anselmian perfect being theology were present already in the thought of St. Augustine. This paper develops that thesis by calling attention to various claims Augustine makes. It then asks whether there are principled reasons for determining which properties the greatest possible being has and whether an account of what contributes to greatness can settle the question whether the greatest possible being is the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac, …Read more
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20Review of Dean-Peter Baker (ed.), Alvin Plantinga (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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30Review of Ontological Arguments by Graham Poppy (review)Review of Metaphysics 52 (1): 163-164. 1998.The central thesis of this book is that “there are perfectly general grounds on which [the author] can dismiss the possibility of a dialectically effective ontological argument [for God’s existence]”. Since there is no other purpose ontological arguments can achieve, they are “completely worthless”.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphysics |