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33An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic MariologyPerichoresis 18 (5): 21-38. 2020.I count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of Wedgwood Baptist Church, which is one of more than 40,000 churches that together comprise the Southern Baptist Convention. I mention this so readers will know that my comments come from a conservative Evangelical Protestant perspective, and my thinking stems from a tradition that is decidedly not Roman Catholic. Having said this, I’m much more s…Read more
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30Evil Does Not Pose Any Special Problem for Berkeleyan IdealismPhilosophia Christi 20 (2): 567-580. 2018.John DePoe takes issue with Christians who accept Berkeleyan idealism, essentially arguing that there is a special problem from evil for the Christian idealist. While DePoe’s treatment of idealism is commendable, his argument ultimately fails in one of two ways. It either (1) turns on common misunderstandings of idealism or (2) results in consequences unacceptable to Christians. In our article, we respond to DePoe’s argument by remotivating idealism, pointing out ways in which DePoe misunderstan…Read more
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48Sex and sexual assault in the #metoo eraThink 19 (55): 33-53. 2020.In a philosophical dialogue, Thomas the traditionalist, Harvey the hedonist, and Eric the economist each discuss their respective views concerning the ethics of human sex acts. In the course of their conversation, it becomes clear that if sex is to be treated like any other pleasure, it is very difficult to explain what is so bad about rape and/or other forms of sexual assault. Taking any kind of sexual assault to be bad, therefore, requires adopting a more traditional view towards sex.
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4Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism (edited book)Routledge. 2018.This new collection of philosophically rigorous essays critiques the interpretation of divine omniscience known as open theism, focusing primarily on philosophically motivated open theism and positing arguments that reject divine knowledge of future contingents in the face of the dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge. The sixteen new essays in this collection, written by some of the most renowned philosophers on the topic of divine providence, represent a philosophical attempt to seriously consid…Read more
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113Future freedom and the fixity of truth: closing the road to limited foreknowledge open theism (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73 (3): 189-207. 2013.Unlike versions of open theism that appeal to the alethic openness of the future, defenders of limited foreknowledge open theism (hereafter LFOT) affirm that some propositions concerning future contingents are presently true. Thus, there exist truths that are unknown to God, so God is not omniscient simpliciter. LFOT requires modal definitions of divine omniscience such that God knows all truths that are logically knowable. Defenders of LFOT have yet to provide an adequate response to Richard Pu…Read more
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When Does God Know? Open Theism, Simultaneous Causation, and DIvine Knowledge of the PresentIn Andrew Moore (ed.), God, Mind, and Knowledge, . pp. 103-120. 2014.
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