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69Ontological Arguments and Belief in God By Graham Oppy Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xx+ 376,£ 40Philosophy 72 (281): 476-. 1997.
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130The indispensability of belief to religionReligious Studies 37 (1): 75-86. 2001.The article examines a central methodological tenet of Grace Jantzen's Becoming Divine. In this book she turns her back on what she calls Anglo-American philosophy of religion in favour of what she calls a continental approach. I argue that for her, belief is as indispensable in religion and in the philosophy of religion as it is for the Anglo-American philosophy of religion which she rejects. Further, the only argument that she offers for her position is a genetic argument for the origins of re…Read more
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122God and spacelessnessIn Steven M. Cahn & David Shatz (eds.), Contemporary philosophy of religion, Oxford University Press. pp. 211-. 1982.In recent years the doctrine that God exists in a timeless eternity has achieved something of the status of philosophical heterodoxy, if not of downright heresy. The arguments against the idea of God's timeless eternity come from two sources. The first of these is Professor Kneale's paper ‘Time and Eternity in Theology’ in which, alluding to the famous definition of eternity by Boethius as ‘the complete possession of eternal life at once’ Professor Kneale confesses ‘I can attach no meaning to th…Read more
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3074Eternity and Vision in BoethiusEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (1). 2009.Boethius and Augustine of Hippo are two of the fountainheads from which the long tradition of regarding God’s existence as timelessly eternal has flowed, a tradition which has influenced not only Christianity, but Judaism and Islam, too. But though the two have divine eternality in common, I shall argue that in other respects, in certain crucial respects, they differ significantly over how they articulate that notion
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1132How Are We to Think of God’s Freedom?European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (3): 49--65. 2015.The paper discusses two conceptions of divine freedom. The first, Hugh McCann’s, proposes that God is a timelessly eternal act, whose agency is not deliberative and who, in that act, creates himself and the contents of his will. God is such an act. Following discussion of this view, its costs and benefits, a more traditional account of God’s freedom, in which he possesses vestigial alternativity, the freedom to choose an alternative should there have been a sufficient reason to do so.
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98Faith and understandingWm. B. Eerdmans. 1997.In Part One Paul Helm provides a general discussion of these themes, seeking both to contextualize the debate and to engage with contemporary philosophical discussion of the relation between faith, reason and understanding. Part Two contains five case studies that illustrate the work of seminal figures in the tradition. They include treatments of Augustine on time and creation, Anselm on the ontological argument and the necessity of the atonement, Jonathan Edwards on the nature of personal ident…Read more
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50Divine commands and morality (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1981.Using data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC), this Statistical Brief presents health insurance estimates for the Hispanic population by subgroups and U.S. citizenship status. An examination of these estimates reveals dramatic disparities in insurance coverage within the Hispanic population due to differences in eligibility for public programs and access to private coverage.
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91God and the Approval of SinReligious Studies 20 (2). 1984.Having clarified certain conceptual matters with regard to God's relation to sin and evil, Professor Brümmer considers the two propositions that God could be the author of any state of affairs that he does not approve of, and that God could approve of any state of affairs which is evil. Brü mmer argues that both these are logically impossible, the first because it would be a sign of weakness in God, and the second because God's will is the ultimate standard of goodness
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40Referring to God: Jewish and Christian philosophical and theological perspectives (edited book)Curzon Press. 2000.In this volume, philosophers from Britain, Israel and the US bring these interpretive techniques together and present important accounts of the problem of ...
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102Frank A. James III Peter martyr vermigli and predestination. (Oxford, clarendon press, 1998). Pp. X+290. £40.00 hbkReligious Studies 35 (3): 371-384. 1999.
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1Reid and 'Reformed'epistemologyIn Joseph Houston (ed.), Thomas Reid: Context, Influence, Significance, Dunedin Academic Press. 2004.
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73John Calvin's IdeasOxford University Press. 2004.Paul Helm looks at how Calvin worked at the interface of theology and philosophy and in particular how he employed medieval ideas to do so. Connections are made between his ideas and contemporary philosophical theology, and there is a careful examination of the appeal that current `Reformed' epistemologists make to Calvin.
