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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Omniscience, the Incarnation, and Knowledge de se [PDF]

, 2012
A knowledge argument is offered that presents unique difficulties for Christians who wish to assert that God is essentially omniscient. The difficulties arise from the doctrine of the incarnation.
Buckareff, Andrei A.
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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God, Doctrine Immutability, unchangeableness, simplicity, Orthodox, evangelical, open theism

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021
In recent years the doctrine of the immutability of God has come under attack within Evangelicalism from the adherents of process theology and open theism, who claim that the doctrine of immutability is based on an Aristotelian philosophy concerning God.
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Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philosophical orthodoxy has it that forgiveness is always discretionary—a gift we are free to extend to those who wrong us, but one that we are never morally required to offer. I dispute this orthodoxy, arguing that forgiveness is sometimes obligatory, even though wrongdoers can never demand or otherwise extract it from us.
Abraham Mathew
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Molinism, Question-Begging, and Foreknowledge of Indeterminates

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2018
John Martin Fischer’s charge that Molinism does not offer a unique answer to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom can be seen as a criticism of middle knowledge for begging the question of FF (foreknowledge and freedom)-compatibilism. In
Laing John D.
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Doa Peperangan Rohani Tingkat Strategis dan Biblical Warfare Worldview : Kawan atau Lawan? 

Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan, 2008
Dalam salah satu ceramahnya tentang “The Second Apostolic Age,” Peter Wagner menegaskan bahwa kekristenan sedang berada dalam proses perubahan besar yang dikerjakan oleh Roh Kudus.
Soerono .
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Naïve Panentheism [PDF]

, 2020
Karl Pfeifer attempts to present a coherent view of panentheism that eschews Pickwickian senses of “in” and aligns itself with, and builds upon, familiar diagrammed portrayals of panentheism.
Pfeifer, Karl
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Why Rāmānuja? Some Reflections on Christian-Vaiṣṇava Comparative Theology [PDF]

, 2018
This paper examines the very idea of developing a Christian-Hindu comparative theology by focusing on Rāmānuja in particular. The paper begins by reflecting on some possible reasons--social, political, theological and philosophical—that Rāmānuja, instead
Gupta, Gopal
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