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8St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God (review)International Studies in Philosophy 14 (2): 114-115. 1982.
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196The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (3): 701-703. 1983.As he makes plain in the preface, Craig's purpose in writing this book is to provide a historical, rather than a critical, exposition of the cosmological proof for the existence of God. In recent years, interest in the cosmological argument has been increasing, but evaluation of it on the part of philosophers of religion has been marked by "woeful ignorance of the historical versions of the argument," as Craig quite correctly remarks. In this book, Craig attempts to lay the foundation for more i…Read more
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63The Atonement and the Problem of ShameJournal of Philosophical Research 41 (9999): 111-129. 2016.The atonement has been traditionally understood to be a solution to the problem created by the human proneness to moral wrongdoing. This problem includes both guilt and shame. Although the problem of human guilt is theologically more central to the doctrine of the atonement, the problem of shame is something that the atonement might be supposed to remedy as well if it is to be a complete antidote to the problems generated by human wrongdoing. In this paper, I discuss the difference between guilt…Read more
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79The Atonement and the Problem of ShameJournal of Philosophical Research 41 (9999): 111-129. 2016.The atonement has been traditionally understood to be a solution to the problem created by the human proneness to moral wrongdoing. This problem includes both guilt and shame. Although the problem of human guilt is theologically more central to the doctrine of the atonement, the problem of shame is something that the atonement might be supposed to remedy as well if it is to be a complete antidote to the problems generated by human wrongdoing. In this paper, I discuss the difference between guilt…Read more
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1Theology and Physics in De sacramento altaris: Ockham's Theory of IndivisiblesIn Norman Kretzmann (ed.), Infinity and continuity in ancient and medieval thought, Cornell University Press. pp. 207--30. 1982.
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42Simplicity Made PlainerFaith and Philosophy 4 (2): 198-201. 1987.The authors try to show that many of the differences between Ross and themselves are only apparent, masking considerable agreement. Among the real disagreements, at least one is over the interpretation of Aquinas’s account of divine simplicity, but the mostcentral disagreement consists in the authors’ claim that their concern was not with a distinction between the way God is and the way he might have been (as Ross suggests) but with the difference between the way God is necessarily and the way h…Read more
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19Science, Reason, and ReligionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 15-17. 2011.
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43St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God (review)International Studies in Philosophy 14 (2): 114-115. 1982.
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213Saadia Gaon on the Problem of EvilFaith and Philosophy 14 (4): 523-549. 1997.Considerable effort has been expended on constructing theodicies which try to reconcile the suffering of unwilling innocents, such as Job, with the existence and nature of God as understood in Christian theology. There is, of course, abundant reflection on the problem of evil and the story of Job in the history of Jewish thought, but this material has not been discussed much in contemporary philosophical literature. I want to take a step towards remedying this defect by examining the interpretat…Read more
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617Sanctification, hardening of the heart, and Frankfurt's concept of free willJournal of Philosophy 85 (8): 395-420. 1988.
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1Samson and self-destroying evilIn Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible, University Press of Maryland. 2008.
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86Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of EvilRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (4): 745-771. 2001.In this paper, the author argues that a second-person experience is an experience one has when one has conscious awareness of another consciously aware person. The author shows that there are some things we know in second-person experiences which are either difficult or impossible to put in propositional form at all but stories can capture them for us. An account of a second-person experience is what we typically find in narratives. The author argues that the second-person point of view has a sp…Read more
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103Simplicity and Aquinas’s Quantum MetaphysicsIn Gerhard Krieger (ed.), Die "Metaphysik" des Aristoteles Im Mittelalter: Rezeption Und Transformation, De Gruyter. pp. 191-210. 2016.
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3Revelation and biblical exegesis: Augustine, Aquinas, and SwinburneIn Richard Swinburne & Alan G. Padgett (eds.), Reason and the Christian Religion: Essays in Honour of Richard Swinburne, Oxford University Press. pp. 171. 1994.
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261Resurrection and the separated soulIn Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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125Reasoned faith: essays in philosophical theology in honor of Norman Kretzmann (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1993.Recent work in the philosophy of religion has broken through disciplinary boundaries and ventured into new areas of inquiry. Examining aspects of the rationality of faith or bringing philosophical techniques to bear on particular religious texts or doctrines, this collection deepens our understanding of the connections between faith and reason.
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140 Petitionary PrayerIn Eleonore Stump & Michael J. Murray (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, Blackwell. pp. 353. 1999.
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69Penelhum on skeptics and fideistsSynthese 67 (1). 1986.Professor Penelhum has argued that there is a common error about the history of skepticism and that the exposure of this error would significantly improve our understanding of a current confusion in the philosophy of religion with regard to the issue of the rationality of religious beliefs. Penelhum considers certain contemporary philosophers of religion such as Plantinga skeptics because he reads Plantinga (for example) as arguing that religious beliefs are properly groundless in virtue of the …Read more
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189Petitionary prayerIn J. Houston (ed.), Is it reasonable to believe in God?, Handsel Press. 1984.
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