Articles in Christian philosophy
Two tracks. The philosophy pieces take one dilemma at a time and index the term that generates it — argument rather than survey. The church pieces are for pastors with a growth problem and no patience for abstraction. Both are free, and both are complete in themselves.
Did God Have to Create? The Modal Collapse Argument On the classical view God did not have to create, and the modal collapse argument is the claim that divine simplicity says He did. The argument runs in one line: a simple, necessary…
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Free — the complete book
These articles take the framework a piece at a time. Volume One is the argument in full: the complete book, free, applying frame-indexing to sovereignty and free will from first axiom to conclusion.
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Divine Simplicity: What It Is and Four Objections Answered Divine simplicity is the doctrine that God has no parts of any kind, and that His essence…
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Libertarian Free Will: Definition, Kinds and Objections Libertarian free will is the view that human beings have free will and that free will is incompatible with…
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The Grounding Objection to Molinism, Explained The grounding objection is the argument that counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, truths of the form "if Peter were in this…
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Will We Have Free Will in Heaven? Can We Sin There? Will we have free will in heaven? Yes: the major Christian traditions hold that the…
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Theological Fatalism: Does Foreknowledge Make Us Unfree? Theological fatalism is the argument that if God infallibly knows what you will do, you cannot do otherwise, and…
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The Permissive Will of God: Does God Cause or Permit Evil? The permissive will of God is His will to allow what He does not author,…
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God's Omniscience and Cantor: Is There a Set of All Truths? Yes, God is omniscient, and God's omniscience means that He knows every truth and believes…
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Clergy Appreciation Month: A Gift That Keeps Giving Clergy Appreciation Month is the whole of October, and Clergy Appreciation Day falls on the second Sunday of…
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What Pastor Appreciation Is, and What It Asks of Us Pastor appreciation is the practice of honouring the person who carries a congregation's week, and in…
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What Is Divine Providence? The Doctrine and Its Parts Divine providence is the doctrine that God preserves everything He has made, acts in and through every…
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Beatific Vision: Essence, Energies, or Christ? The beatific vision is the direct sight of God promised to the redeemed, the sight in which their blessedness finally…
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Free — the complete book
These articles take the framework a piece at a time. Volume One is the argument in full: the complete book, free, applying frame-indexing to sovereignty and free will from first axiom to conclusion.
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Resolving the Free Will Dilemma — the complete book, not a sample. Calvinism, Arminianism and Molinism reconciled at the foundational level.
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