• The humanity of God
    In Anna Marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnation, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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    X
    Faith and Philosophy 31 (1): 3-23. 2014.
    Western theism holds that God cannot do evil. Christians also hold that Christ is God the Son and that Christ was tempted to do evil. These claims appear to be jointly inconsistent. I argue that they are not
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    Tempting God
    Faith and Philosophy 31 (1): 3-23. 2014.
    Western theism holds that God cannot do evil. Christians also hold that Christ is God the Son and that Christ was tempted to do evil. These claims appear to be jointly inconsistent. I argue that they are not
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    The Greater-Good Defense
    with Melville Stewart
    Philosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 405. 1996.
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    The Concept of God (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 31 (1): 114-116. 1991.
  • Time: A Philosophical Treatment (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1): 116-118. 1990.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Anselm (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2004.
    Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore all of his major ideas both philosophical and theological, including his teachings on faith and reason, God's existence and nature, logic, freedom, truth, ethics, and key Christian doctrines. There is also discussion of his life, the sources of his thought, and his influence o…Read more
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    ``Timelessness and Foreknowledge"
    Philosophical Studies 63 (3): 309-325. 1991.
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    Time and Eternity
    Cornell University Press. 1991.
    [I] Introduction The Western religions all claim that God is eternal. This claim finds strong expression in the Old Testament, which is common property of ...
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    Time, Actuality and Omniscience
    Religious Studies 26 (3). 1990.
    Many traditional theists have said that God is propositionally omniscient, i.e. knows all truths. Many traditional theists also hold that God is timeless. That is, these theists hold that though God exists, there is no time at which He exists, and He does not exist earlier or later than anything. Some recent philosophers, among them Arthor Prior, Robert Coburn, Norman Kretz mann, Nicholas Wolterstorfl Richard Gale and Patrick Grim, have argued that There are truths to whose expression ‘now’ is e…Read more
  • Soul, mind and brain
    In Robert C. Koons & George Bealer (eds.), The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    Swinburne on divine necessity
    Religious Studies 46 (2): 141-162. 2010.
    Most analytic philosophers hold that if God exists, He exists with broad logical necessity. Richard Swinburne denies the distinction between narrow and broad logical necessity, and argues that if God exists, His existence is narrow-logically contingent. A defender of divine broad logical necessity could grant the latter claim. I argue, however, that not only is God's existence broad-logically necessary, but on a certain understanding of God's relation to modality, it comes out narrow-logically n…Read more
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    Time: A Philosophical Treatment
    International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1): 116-118. 1990.
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    Souls dipped in dust
    In Kevin Corcoran (ed.), Soul, body, and survival: essays on the metaphysics of human persons, Cornell University Press. pp. 120--138. 2001.
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    Summary
    Analysis 75 (2): 257-259. 2015.
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    Reason and the Christian Religion (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (2): 216-218. 1998.
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    Relations (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 32 (2): 263-264. 1992.
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    Replies
    Analysis 75 (2): 284-295. 2015.
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    Power, Possibilia and Non-Contradiction
    Modern Schoolman 82 (4): 231-243. 2005.
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    Perfection and Possibility
    Faith and Philosophy 32 (4): 423-431. 2015.
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    Précis of God and Necessity
    European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (3): 1--3. 2014.
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    Philosophical Perspectives 5 (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 13 (2): 272-279. 1996.
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    On Hasker on Leftow on Hasker on Leftow
    Faith and Philosophy 29 (3): 334-339. 2012.
    William Hasker has rejected my rejection of his criticisms of my “Latin” account of the Trinity. I now reject his rejection.
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    One Step Toward God
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 68 67-103. 2011.
    I describe a new argument for the existence of God, and argue one of its steps. En route I criticize class-nominalist theories of attributes, and sketch an alternate theory involving God
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    On God and Necessity
    Faith and Philosophy 31 (4): 435-459. 2014.
    My God and Necessity offers a theist a theory of modal truth. Two recent articles criticize the theory’s motivation and main features. I reply to these criticisms.