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    The Root of All Evil?
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Need for Certainty Indifference to the Goods of This World A Cause of Violence The Hope of the World?
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    Evil and the Meaning of Life
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Evidential Argument from Evil Theodicies A Limited Perspective Horrors The Defeat of Horror Sources of Meaning.
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    Religious Consciousness
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Simone Weil: The Philosophical Mystic The Varieties of Religious Experience Mysticism, its Varieties, and its Authority Sam Harris on Spiritual Experience Schleiermacher on the Essence of Religious Experience.
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    Philosophy and God's Existence, Part II
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Cosmological Argument of Leibniz and Clarke Ontological Arguments and the Concept of a Necessary Being Why Not a Self‐Existent Universe? The Contestable Principle of Sufficient Reason Concluding Remarks.
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    Science, Transcendence, and Meaning
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Religion vs. Superstition Virgin Mary Sightings Schleiermacher and the Transcendence of God Brains in Vats What Science Can and Cannot Say About the Transcendent The God of the Chance Gaps A Meaningful “God” The Meaning of Life Concluding Remarks.
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    Philosophy and God's Existence, Part I
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Mangling Aquinas The Argument from Design Why the Argument from Design Fails Dawkins' Case Against Theism A Fundamental Difficulty with Dawkins' Atheistic Argument.
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    Divine Tyranny and the Goodness of God
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Concept of Divine Goodness as a Tool of Criticism The Divine Command Theory – or, How to Strip God's Goodness of Significance The Fundamentalist Attack on Divine Goodness The Problem with Young Earth Creationism Concluding Remarks.
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    “The God Hypothesis” and the Concept of God
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: New Atheist Definitions of God The Supremely Good God of Traditional Theism Non‐Substantive Definitions of “God” The Ethico‐Religious Hope God: The Ethico‐Religious Hope Fulfilled Continuity from the Ancients: Plutarch and Zoroaster Concluding Remarks.
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    On Religion and Equivocation
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Meanings of “Religion” Einsteinian Religion and the Feeling of Piety The Art of Equivocation The Eloquent Equivocations of Sam Harris The Truth amidst the Mudslinging.
  • Introduction
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Spirit of Schleiermacher Ideology and Hope Overview.
  • References
    In Is God a Delusion?, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The New Atheist Attack on Faith Fides and Fiducia Catholic Faith The Failure of the Catholic View of Faith A Lutheran Alternative Love and Revelation Reason for Trust? Pragmatic Faith The Ethico‐Religious Hope Revisited The Logic of Faith.
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    Review of Liba Taub, Ptolemy's universe; The natural philosophical and ethical foundations of Ptolemy's astronomy. Chicago: Open Court 1993. xiv, 188 p.
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    Review of "Love Divine: A Systematic Account", by Jordan Wessling (review)
    European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (3): 285-290. 2022.
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    Is Annihilation More Severe than Eternal Conscious Torment?
    Southwest Philosophy Review 38 (1): 191-198. 2022.
    In Hell and Divine Goodness, James Spiegel defends the surprising position that of the two dominant non-universalist Christian views on the fate of the damned—the traditionalist view that the damned suffer eternal conscious torment, and the annihilationist view that the damned are put out of existence—the annihilationist view actually posits the more severe fate from the standpoint of a punishment. I argue here that his case for this position rests on two questionable assumptions, and that even …Read more
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    Recently, Eric Yang and Stephen Davis have defended what they call the separationist view of hell against an objection leveled by Jeremy Gwiazda by invoking the concept of hard-heartedness as an account of why some would eternally choose to remain in hell. Gwiazda’s objection to the separationist view of hell is an instance of a broader strategy of objection invoked by other universalists to argue that God could guarantee universal salvation while respecting libertarian freedom—an objection that…Read more
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    Terrorism: A Philosophical Investigation, written by Igor Primoratz
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (3): 357-360. 2017.
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    Nature, Place, and Space
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1): 83-101. 1996.
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    _Is God a Delusion?_ addresses the philosophical underpinnings of the recent proliferation of popular books attacking religious beliefs. Winner of CHOICE 2009 Outstanding Academic Title Award Focuses primarily on charges leveled by recent critics that belief in God is irrational and that its nature ferments violence Balances philosophical rigor and scholarly care with an engaging, accessible style Offers a direct response to the crop of recent anti-religion bestsellers currently generating consi…Read more
  • The Moral Status of Violence Within the Framework of a Christian Love Ethic
    Dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo. 1993.
    Two interrelated questions drive this work. First, what moral status does violence have within the framework of the Christian tradition which gives the command to love one's "neighbor" the status of fundamental moral principle? Second, can an ethics of the sort articulated in this tradition stand on its own as a coherent and complete moral system? ;In exploring these questions, I focus attention on the following forseeable situation, which provides a special problem for the sort of Christian eth…Read more
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    Substance and Modern Science. By Richard J. Connell (review)
    Modern Schoolman 69 (1): 64-66. 1991.
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    The Irreconcilability of Pacifism and Just War Theory
    Social Theory and Practice 20 (2): 117-134. 1994.
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    Rape as an essentially contested concept
    Hypatia 16 (2): 43-66. 2001.
    : Because "rape" has such a powerful appraisive meaning, how one defines the term has normative significance. Those who define rape rigidly so as to exclude contemporary feminist understandings are therefore seeking to silence some moral perspectives "by definition." I argue that understanding rape as an essentially contested concept allows the concept sufficient flexibility to permit open moral discourse, while at the same time preserving a core meaning that can frame the discourse
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    No Title available: Book reviews (review)
    Religious Studies 46 (1): 130-135. 2010.
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    Christianity and Partisan Politics
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 2 (4): 82-96. 1999.
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    Homosexuality, Misogyny, and God’s Plan
    Faith and Philosophy 16 (2): 213-232. 1999.
    In response to powerful criticisms of older arguments, contemporary defenders of the Church’s traditional stance on homosexuality have fashioned a new kind of argument based upon the special relationship God created between the sexes. In this paper we examine two recent incarnations of this kind of argument and show that both fail to demonstrate the inherent immorality of homosexual relationships, and at most demonstrate that homosexual relationships are inferior to heterosexual relationships in…Read more
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    Sympathy for the Damned
    Southwest Philosophy Review 18 (1): 201-211. 2002.
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    Pursuing the Beloved Community
    Southwest Philosophy Review 19 (1): 31-40. 2003.
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    Does the Argument from Evil Assume a Consequentialist Morality?
    Faith and Philosophy 17 (3): 306-319. 2000.
    In this paper, I argue that the some of the most popular and influential formulations of the Argument from Evil (AE) assume a moral perspective that is essentially consequentialist, and would therefore be unacceptable to deontologists. Specifically, I examine formulations of the argument offered by William Rowe and Bruce Russell, both of whom explicitly assert that their formulation of AE is theoretically neutral with respect to consequentialism, and can be read in a way that is unobjectionable …Read more
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    One reason for the persistent appeal of Don Marquis' ‘future like ours’ argument is that it seems to offer a way to approach the debate about the morality of abortion while sidestepping the difficult task of establishing whether the fetus is a person. This essay argues that in order to satisfactorily address both of the chief objections to FLO – the ‘identity objection’ and the ‘contraception objection’ – Marquis must take a controversial stand on what is most essential to being the kind of enti…Read more