Prevenient Grace: What It Is and Why Calvinists Object
Prevenient Grace: What It Is and Why Calvinists Object Prevenient grace is the grace of God that goes before a person's conversion, awakening and enabling a…
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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.
Kenoticism and Kenosis: What Christ Emptied Himself Of
Kenoticism and Kenosis: What Christ Emptied Himself Of Kenoticism is the family of Christologies holding that in the Incarnation the Son of God emptied Himself of…
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Open Theism: What It Gets Right and Where It Overreaches
Open Theism: What It Gets Right and Where It Overreaches Open theism is the view that God knows everything that can be known, but that the…
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Total Depravity: Meaning, Scripture, and the Ability Debate
Total Depravity: Meaning, Scripture, and the Ability Debate Total depravity is the Reformed doctrine, the T in TULIP, that sin has corrupted every part of the…
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What Is Calvinism? Beliefs, Meaning, and Objections
What Is Calvinism? Beliefs, Meaning, and Objections Calvinism is the Protestant tradition, also called Reformed theology, which teaches that God is sovereign over all things and…
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Molinism: Middle Knowledge, Its Critics, and a Third Way
Molinism: Middle Knowledge, Its Critics, and a Third Way Molinism is the view, named for the Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina (1535–1600), that God knows what…
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What Is the Unforgivable Sin? Scripture, Views, and Fear
What Is the Unforgivable Sin? Scripture, Views, and Fear The unforgivable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (Mark 3:29; Matthew 12:31–32; Luke 12:10): the knowing,…
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The Sovereignty of God: What It Means in Each View
The Sovereignty of God: What It Means in Each View The sovereignty of God is His rightful rule over everything He has made: the authority to…
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Haecceity: Scotus’s Answer to the Problem of Individuation
Haecceity is the thisness that makes a thing this individual: its definition, Scotus's argument, the problem of individuation, and where it applies to God.
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Hylomorphism: Matter, Form, and What a Human Being Is
Hylomorphism explained: Aristotle's matter and form, Aquinas's soul as the form of the body, hylomorphic dualism, and what the Many Beings Framework adds.
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