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Divine Agency, Divine Freedom, and Divine Suffering
2021Abstract This chapter argues that traditional concepts of God as pure act, impassible, atemporal, and simple should be rethought in light of the canonical claims the Christian tradition makes about divine action. First, it examines why we should hold to a strong account of divine agency.
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Aquinas, Divine Simplicity, and Divine Freedom
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2003Aquinas maintains that, although God created the universe, he could have created another or simply refrained from creating altogether. That Aquinas believes in divine free choice is uncontroversial. Yet doubts have been raised as to whether Thomas is entitled to this belief, given his claims concerning divine simplicity.
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Divine Holiness and Divine Perfection
2021Abstract This chapter defends an argument from divine holiness to divine perfection. Primary holiness presupposes a value gap between the holy being and others—it is the greatly superior value of the holy being that makes union with that being desirable for other beings, and makes intimate unity with the holy being at some level ...
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Divine Holiness and Divine Action
2021Abstract Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture. But there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. This book defends an account of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto’s description of the experience of the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum ...
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Studies in Christian Ethics, 2010
In the Jewish tradition there are those who simply identify divine justice with the specific divine commands, which is a theological version of legal positivism. This paper argues for another view in the Jewish tradition, viz., divine justice or divine wisdom is the rationale of the specific divine commands, thus making them more than arbitrary ...
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In the Jewish tradition there are those who simply identify divine justice with the specific divine commands, which is a theological version of legal positivism. This paper argues for another view in the Jewish tradition, viz., divine justice or divine wisdom is the rationale of the specific divine commands, thus making them more than arbitrary ...
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Divine authority and divine perfection
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2001L'A. traite de la perfection et de l'autorite divines. Il decrit d'abord la relation entre deux etres rationnels ou l'un a l'autorite sur l'autre, montre que les perfections divines n'entrainent pas l'autorite et donne des raisons de douter de l'idee que l'autorite est une perfection divine.
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Divine hiddenness as divine mercy
Religious Studies, 2011AbstractIf God exists, why isn't His existence more apparent? In recent analytic philosophy this longstanding question has been developed into an argument for atheism typically referred to as the ‘problem of divine hiddenness’. My goal here is to put forward a new reply.
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, 2021 Divine Hiddenness and Divine Humility
Sophia, 2013If God exists, and if our ultimate well-being depends on having a positive relationship with Him (which requires as a first step that we believe He exists), why doesn't He make sure that we all believe in Him? Why doesn't He make His existence obvious? This traditional theological question is today much-used as an argument for atheism.
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