What Is Divine Providence? The Doctrine and Its Parts
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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Christian Philosophy
Christian philosophy worked out one idea at a time. Each essay takes a single concept from Frame-Indexed Classical Theism, and shows how it can resolve core tensions.
Beatific Vision: Essence, Energies, or Christ?
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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Does God Have Emotions? What Impassibility Really Claims
Does God Have Emotions? What Impassibility Really Claims Does God have emotions? Yes. He loves, delights, grieves and sets Himself against evil, and Scripture reports all…
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Does God Know the Future? What Each Answer Costs
Does God Know the Future? What Each Answer Costs Does God know the future? Yes, exhaustively and infallibly, and the live question in analytic theology is…
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Does God Change His Mind? The Relenting Texts Explained
Does God Change His Mind? The Relenting Texts Explained Does God change his mind? No, and the passages in which he relents are still true reports…
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Is God a Person? Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism
Is God a Person? Classical Theism vs Theistic Personalism Is God a person? The answer depends on which of two unrelated senses of the word is…
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Aseity: God’s Self-Existence and the Platonist Challenge
Aseity: God's Self-Existence and the Platonist Challenge Aseity is the property by which a being exists of and from itself, and in Christian theology it names…
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Why Does God Allow Suffering? The Real Argument
Why Does God Allow Suffering? The Real Argument Why does God allow suffering? The direct answer is that He permits finite, temporal suffering within a world…
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Apophatic Theology: Where the Negation Belongs
Apophatic Theology: Where the Negation Belongs Apophatic theology, also called negative theology or the via negativa, speaks about God by denial: it says what God is…
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Annihilationism: What It Gets Right and What It Costs
Annihilationism: What It Gets Right and What It Costs Annihilationism is the view that the finally impenitent are destroyed at the last judgment rather than kept…
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