-
30Stepped characterisation: a metaphysical defence of qua-propositions in ChristologyInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 86 (1): 25-38. 2019.Given Conciliar Christology and a compositionalist metaphysics of the incarnation, I explore whether ‘qua-propositions’ are capable of solving the coherence problem in Christology. I do this by probing the metaphysical aspect of qua-propositions, since ‘semantics presupposes metaphysics’. My proposal focuses on the fact that the Word accidentally owns an individual human nature. Due to that individuality, the human properties first characterise the individual human nature and, in a ‘next step’, …Read more
-
13The coherence of equivocal penal substitution: modern and scholastic voicesInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 86 (3): 227-241. 2019.In this contribution we investigate the conceptual coherence of penal substitution and its moral validity. After assessing two opposing modern contributions, we turn to Reformed and medieval scholasticism. This scholastic manoeuvre sheds additional light on the analytic questions at issue. Following Owen and Scotus in their use of a relational analysis of guilt and its punishment, we argue that penal substitution is conceptually and morally coherent, albeit not univocally vis-à-vis ordinary puni…Read more
-
Utrecht UniversityPost-doctoral fellow
Utrecht, Netherlands
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |