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154Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine ActionAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 31 (2): 161-164. 2010.Philip Clayton, Ingraham Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology, is widely recognized both as a major contributor to contemporary discussions of the relations between science and religion and as a philosopher-theologian of great originality. Although Clayton invariably couches his arguments and conclusions in fallibilist terms, this is, by any measure, an ambitious book. It is the closest thing yet to his magnum opus. Included are revisions of fifteen previously published articles…Read more
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111William James on free will and determinismJournal of Mind and Behavior 7 (4): 555-565. 1986.James's classic article "The Dilemma of Determinism" represents only an early and partial statement on his views of free will and determinism. James's mature position incorporates the arguments of "The Dilemma of Determinism" into a robust theory of free will which at once explains the operations of free effort, and delineates the scope of legitimate psychological explanation. Free will is an issue of fact while being beyond the competence of psychological science.
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79David Ray Griffin, reenchantment without supernaturalism: A process philosophy of religion (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52 (2): 119-121. 2002.
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73Hartshorne’s Dipolar Theism and the Mystery of GodPhilosophia 35 (3-4): 341-350. 2007.Anselm said that God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived, but he believed that it followed that God is greater than can be conceived. The second formulaâessential to sound theologyâpoints to the mystery of God. The usual way of preserving divine mystery is the via negativa, as one finds in Aquinas. I formalize Hartshorneâs central argument against negative theology in the simplest modal system T. I end with a defense of Hartshorneâs way of preserving the mystery of God, w…Read more
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73Book review: J. Harley Chapman and Nancy K. Frankenberry (eds.),Interpreting Neville (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 53 (2): 123-125. 2003.
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71American Deism, Christianity, and the Age of ReasonAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 31 (2): 83-107. 2010.Where religion is concerned, the best and most lasting contribution of America's founders was arguably more political than theological. They brought to fruition the idea of religious freedom. To be sure, this concept had already been articulated and underwent important developments prior to the eighteenth century.2 The Americans, however, began to make it a reality in the sphere of public life. This is nowhere more evident than in the Constitution of the United States and in the first article of…Read more
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64Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick FerrZ. These essays, informed by the insights of FerrZ and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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62Jules Lequyer and the Openness of GodFaith and Philosophy 14 (2): 212-235. 1997.Until recently the most prominent defender of the openness of God was Charles Hartshorne. Evangelical thinkers are now defending similar ideas while being careful to distance themselves from the less orthodox dimensions of process theology. An overlooked figure in the debate is Jules Lequyer. Although process thinkers have praised Lequyer as anticipating their views, he may be closer in spirit to the evangelicals because of the foundational nature of his Catholicism. Lequyer’s passionate defense…Read more
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60Logic CrystallizedTeaching Philosophy 20 (2): 143-154. 1997.This paper presents, explains, and addresses the pedagogical utility of the “Wachter crystal,” a three-dimensional representation of basic principles of logic designed and created by Thomas Wachter in 1992. The author first discusses a way of understanding relations of logical inference which groups propositions possessing identical truth tables into the same class (that is, a way of conceptualizing rules for replacement). Next, the author presents and explains a 16 x 16 matrix, the most basic f…Read more
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60Book review: Joseph A. Bracken, S. J. the one in the many: A contemporary reconstruction of the God-world relationship. Forward by Philip Clayton. Grand rapids, MI: William B. eerdmans publishing company, 2001. 234 pp. $22.00 (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (1): 69-71. 2006.
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56The Philosophy of William James: Radical Empiricism and Radical Materialism by Donald A. CrosbyAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37 (2): 188-192. 2016.William James described his system as “too much like an arch built only on one side.” Donald Crosby’s project is to chart the dimensions of the arch, repair it in certain places, and continue its construction. He endorses a Jamesian empiricism according to which “pure experience” is the ultimate context within which we come to judgments about reality, but he resists James’s allusions to pure experience as the stuff from which the world is made. The metaphysical question is answered by “radical m…Read more
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55Gijsbert Van den Brink and Marcel Sarot (eds.), Understanding the attributes of God [contributions to philosophical theology, volume 1]International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (2): 123-125. 2000.
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50Eugene Thomas long (ed.), God, reason and religions: New essays in the philosophy of religion (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 42 (3): 187-189. 1997.
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49The American Reception of Jules Lequyer: From James to HartshorneAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 36 (3): 260-277. 2015.The influence of Jules Lequyer [or Lequier] in philosophy, especially American philosophy, is disproportionate to the widespread ignorance of his name and to the fragmentary state of his literary remains. On the subject of free will, Lequyer’s influence on William James was profound, although James did not acknowledge his debt to the Frenchman, nor has it been recognized by most James scholars. It is true that James considered Lequyer “a French philosopher of genius,”1 but inexplicably, he never…Read more
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48Daniel A. Dombrowski, analytic theism, Hartshorne, and the concept of GodInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 44 (2): 126-128. 1998.
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44Is the Divine Shorn of Its Heart? Responding to Simoni-WastilaAmerican Journal of Theology and Philosophy 22 (2). 2001.
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40Daniel A. Dombrowski, rethinking the ontological argument: A neoclassical theistic response (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 62 (3): 171-172. 2007.
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40The Varieties of Theism and the Openness of God: Charles Hartshorne and Free-Will TheismThe Personalist Forum 14 (2): 199-238. 1998.
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39Charles Hartshorne, 1897-2000Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 74 (5). 2001.An obituary notice outlining the main aspects of Charles Hartshorne's life, career, and thought.
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37Comments on Mason Marshall's "Democracy in Plato's Republic: How Bad is it Supposed to Be?"Southwest Philosophy Review 25 (2): 15-18. 2009.
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37Free will in process perspectiveNew Ideas in Psychology 12 129-41. 1994.Positions in the ongoing debate about free will are characterized and compared, that is, determinism, indeterminism, chaoticism, stronger and weaker versions of indeterminism and chaoticism, and hard and soft determinism, and libertarianism. Libertarianism is claimed to be the most adequate of these alternatives and is defended from the process perspectives of A. N. Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, and the psychologist-philosopher William James. The defence is developed by responding to three obje…Read more
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35Lewis S. Ford, transforming process theism , foreword by Robert Cummings NevilleInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 54 (1): 61-63. 2003.
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34The Open Future: Why Future Contingents Are All False, by Patrick Todd (review)Process Studies 52 (2): 285-291. 2023.
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33Nature, Truth, and Value: Exploring the Thinking of Frederick Ferrz (edited book)Lexington Books. 2005.In this thorough compendium, nineteen accomplished scholars explore, in some manner the values they find inherent in the world, their nature, and revelence through the thought of Frederick Ferré. These essays, informed by the insights of Ferré and coming from manifold perspectives—ethics, philosophy, theology, and environmental studies, advance an ambitious challenge to current intellectual and scholarly fashions
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