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5Divine Commands as the Basis for Moral ObligationsIn Govert J. Buijs & Annette K. Mosher (eds.), The Future of Creation Order: Vol. 2, Order Among Humans: Humanities, Social Science and Normative Practices, Springer Verlag. pp. 115-133. 2018.This paper explains and defends a divine command account of moral obligations. A divine command account of moral obligations is distinguished from a general theological voluntarism which grounds all moral truth in the divine will. God’s commands ground moral duties, but truths about the good are grounded in the nature of God and God’s creation. Such an account does not see a divine command account as a rival to a natural law view of the good or as a rival to virtue ethics. The three types of acc…Read more
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5Reliability of Moral Judgment Interview: Written VersionJournal of Moral Education 11 (3): 200-202. 1982.
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4The Single Individual is Higher than the Universal: KierkegaardIn John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth Century Philosophy. pp. 160-184. 2019.
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3The Politics of Exodus: Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Responsibility (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2): 281-282. 2002.
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3Religious experience and the question of whether belief in God requires evidenceIn Kelly James Clark & Raymond J. VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and Religious Belief, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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3Louis Mackey, Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (9): 359-361. 1987.
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3Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In pondering these questions, Kierkegaard presents faith as a paradox that cannot be understood by reason and conventional morality, and he challenges the …Read more
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3Few writer-philosophers of the past have evoked as much curiosity in the twentieth century than Soren Kierkegaard. The further one probes into his thought the more his ideas prove to have relevance for the modern world and especially to Christians. Such is the case with psychology.
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2Why Kierkegaard Still Matters – and Matters to MeKierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2010 (2010): 21-32. 2010.
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2Faith and reason in Kierkegaard's Concluding unscientific postscriptIn Rick Anthony Furtak (ed.), Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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1Søren KierkegaardIn John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy V3: Nineteenth Century, Routledge. pp. 159-182. 2005.
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1Unity and multiplicity in hypnosis, commissurotomy, and multiple personality disorderJournal of Mind and Behavior 5 (4): 423-431. 1984.
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1The Single Individual is Higher than the UniversalIn John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth‐Century Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.Soren Kierkegaard (1813‐1855) is primarily known as a moral philosopher. This chapter looks at his contributions to ethics, and shows how Kierkegaard's writings can contribute to epistemology, metaphysics, and other areas of contemporary philosophy. In order to contextualize Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy the chapter briefly surveys some of the ways Kierkegaard is connected to nineteenth‐century philosophers, as well as classical figures like Socrates. It considers Kierkegaard's contr…Read more
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Kierkegaard on politics : putting the modern state in its place while loving our neighborsIn Robert L. Perkins & Sylvia Walsh Perkins (eds.), Truth is subjectivity: Kierkegaard and political theology: a symposium in honor of Robert L. Perkins, Mercer University Press. 2019.
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The naïve teleological argument : an argument from design for ordinary peopleIn Jerry L. Walls Trent Dougherty (ed.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Subjectivity and Religious BeliefInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13 (1): 44-45. 1982.
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Human persons as substantial achieversPhilosophia Reformata 58 (2): 100-112. 1993.A debate is raging in our culture between two ways of understanding what it is to be a person. We are torn between understanding personhood in metaphysical terms, as a kind of entity, and understanding personhood as anachievement, a status which is attributed to something by virtue of that thing’s activities and/or relationships. On the first view persons are what we are; on the second view persons are something which we must become. I shall term these two ways of thinking about human personhood…Read more
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Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical FragmentsInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 36 (1): 57-59. 1994.
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A philosophical response to David Brown's Divine HumanityIn Christopher R. Brewer & David Brown (eds.), Christian theology and the transformation of natural religion: from incarnation to sacramentality: essays in honour of David Brown, Peeters. 2018.
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L.P. Pojman, "Religious belief and the will"International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 28 (1): 47. 1990.
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Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript: The Religious Philosophy of Johannes ClimacusInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 16 (2): 175-176. 1983.
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Wisdom and Humanness in Psychology: Prospects for a Christian ApproachBehavior and Philosophy 19 (1): 109-112. 1991.
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Louis Mackey, Points of View: Readings of Kierkegaard (review)Philosophy in Review 7 359-361. 1987.
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History of Western Philosophy |
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