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Neo-Aristotelian accounts of divine creationIn Gregory E. Ganssle (ed.), Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation, Routledge. 2021.
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921 In Defense of Christian PlatonismIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Ontology of Divinity, De Gruyter. pp. 419-444. 2024.
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17Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy (edited book)Zondervan Academic. 2016.Philosophy and Christianity make truth claims about many of the same things. They both claim to provide answers to the deep questions of life. But how are they related to one another? Four Views on Christianity and Philosophy introduces readers to four predominant views on the relationship between philosophy and the Christian faith and their implications for life. Each author identifies the propositional relation between philosophy and Christianity along with a section devoted to the implication…Read more
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10Is Faith in God Reasonable?: Debates in Philosophy, Science, and Rhetoric (edited book)Routledge. 2014.The question of whether faith in God is reasonable is of renewed interest in today’s academy. In light of this interest, as well as the rise of militant religion and terrorism and the emergent reaction by neo-atheism, this volume considers this important question from the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and in a more novel fashion, of rhetoricians. It is comprised of a public debate between William Lane Craig, supporting the position that faith in God is reasonable and Alex Rosen…Read more
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35Where the Bootstrapping Really LiesInternational Philosophical Quarterly 57 (4): 415-428. 2017.Modified Theistic Activism is the view that abstract objects not essentially possessed by God fall under God’s creative activity in one way or another. Michelle Panchuk has argued that this position succumbs to the bootstrapping problem such that God is and is not logically prior to his properties—an incoherent and necessarily false state of affairs. In this essay we respond to Panchuk by arguing that our neo-Aristotelian account of substance and property possession successfully avoids the boots…Read more
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10Jeffrey Koperski. Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of NatureJournal of Analytic Theology 10 718-722. 2022.
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5Loving God with your mind: essays in honor of J. P. Moreland (edited book)Moody Publishers. 2014.
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26Loving God with Your Mind: Essays in Honor of J. P. Moreland (edited book)Moody Publishers. 2013.Over the past twenty-five years, no one has done more than J. P. Moreland to equip Christians to love God with their minds. In his work as a Christian philosopher, scholar, and apologist, he has influenced thousands of students, written groundbreaking books, and taught multitudes of Christians to defend their faith. In honor of Moreland's ministry, general editors Paul M. Gould and Richard Brian Davis have assembled a team of friends and colleagues to celebrate his work. In three major parts dev…Read more
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22Theistic Activism and the Doctrine of CreationPhilosophia Christi 16 (2): 283-296. 2014.This paper provides a plausible answer to the question of how God created. In addition, it explores an additional reason, beyond those related to the debate over God’s relationship to abstract objects, for thinking theistic activism true. Specifically, a new model of God’s creative activity—the activist model—will be offered that satisfies key desiderata with respect to the nature of God’s perfect power to create.
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15Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature, ed. William Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and James OrrPhilosophia Christi 24 (1): 153-158. 2022.
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18God over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of PlatonismPhilosophia Christi 19 (2): 469-473. 2017.
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9Beyond the control of God?: six views on the problem of God and abstract objects (edited book)Bloomsbury Publishing. 2014.
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Teleological argumentsIn Mark A. Lamport (ed.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Philosophy and Religion, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
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16God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with PainPhilosophia Christi 16 (2): 460-464. 2014.
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24Creation and the Sovereignty of God, by Hugh J. McCannFaith and Philosophy 30 (3): 361-364. 2013.
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24Intentionality and God: A Review Essay of R. Scott Smith’s Naturalism and Our Knowledge of RealityPhilo 15 (1): 97-105. 2012.R. Scott Smith argues that it is only theism, and not naturalism, that can deliver us knowledge. In this brief essay, I focus on the phenomenon of intentionality as articulated and developed by Smith and explore implications of his thesis for metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophical theology
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134Can God Create Abstract Objects? A Reply to Peter van InwagenSophia 53 (1): 99-112. 2014.The Platonic theist Peter van Inwagen argues that God cannot create abstract objects. Thus, the quantifier ‘everything’ in traditional statements of the doctrine of creation should be appropriately restricted to things that can enter into causal relations and abstract objects cannot: ‘God is the creator of everything distinct from himself…that can enter into causal relations.’ I respond to van Inwagen arguing that he has provided no good reason for thinking abstract objects must be uncreated. An…Read more
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573The Problem of Universals, Realism, and GodMetaphysica 13 (2): 183-194. 2012.There has been much discussion of late on what exactly the Problem of Universals is and is not. Of course answers to these questions and many more like it depend on what is supposed to be explained by a solution to the Problem of Universals. In this paper, I seek to establish two claims: first, that when the facts (explanada) to be explained and the kind of explanation needed are elucidated, it will be shown that the Problem of Universals is a real metaphysical problem, not a pseudo problem; sec…Read more
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324How Does an Aristotelian Substance Have its Platonic Properties? Issues and OptionsAxiomathes 23 (2): 343-364. 2013.Attempts to explicate the substance-property nexus are legion in the philosophical literature both historical and contemporary. In this paper, I shall attempt to impose some structure into the discussion by exploring ways to combine two unlikely bedfellows—Platonic properties and Aristotelian substances. Special attention is paid to the logical structure of substances and the metaphysics of property exemplification. I shall argue that an Aristotelian-Platonic account of the substance-property ne…Read more
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15The Problem of God and Abstract ObjectsPhilosophia Christi 13 (2): 255-274. 2011.How does God relate to abstract objects, if there be any? Any adequate solution to this question quickly leads to deep waters philosophical and theological. In this essay, I attempt to bring clarity to the debate related to the problem of God and abstract objects by first explicating as precisely as possible the problem and then by imposing some order into the debate by classifying various contemporary answers to the problem.
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13Theistic ActivismPhilosophia Christi 13 (1): 127-139. 2011.Platonic theists have fallen on hard days. Theologically, it is argued that Platonism is unacceptable for the traditional theist, violating the aseity-sovereignty doctrine. Philosophically, Platonic theism suffers from an unforgiveable sin—incoherence. Understandably, the arguments in the literature are advanced as generically as possible, seeking metaphysical thinness in order to achieve clarity. I argue that this way of engaging the debate over the possibility of Platonic theism will only take…Read more