The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

in the first world are much better than the creatures in the second world, it somehow logically follows that God must love the c ...

God. For if we consider our lives spread over time, we cannot but note that we possess only one part of our temporal lives at a ...

for God to determine at the moment of creation all future human actions and still provide for humans to be free to act otherwise ...

f1: In 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. f2: In 1941 a war begins between Japan and the United States that lasts five years. Rela ...

difficulty in establishing the compatibility of perfect goodness and omnipotence, because a being whose nature is to be perfectl ...

Clarke, Samuel. [1738] 1978. Works. In four volumes in British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Centuries. New ...

state, in no way changing; nor is it fitting for him to go now here now there”; that “without effort, by the will of his mind he ...

picks out a situation. But how can Smith freely choose to sin if, as (B) maintains, that very situation depends on God for its b ...

product, the blame is to be laid on the refractory nature of the chaotic, preexisting matter with which the craftsman had to wor ...

corruption from creation and annihilation. Reserve the term “creation” for the bringing of things into existence out of nothing. ...

minutes. An adroit theologian might even be tempted to try to exempt sinful functions from God's support. To be sure, this versi ...

(I take the consequent of (1′) to leave it open whether x is to be charged with doing φ or with some other offense, such as bein ...

also extends to the creation of absolute space and time. Perhaps the most startling feature of the rejoinder is that, when combi ...

of propositions specifying free human decisions about which not even God knows the truth-values in advance. It is not the purpos ...

If Descartes' motivation is to make God master of the modal economy, then I think we must conclude that he has failed. For on th ...

The embellished Augustinian strategy proceeds by pointing out that omniscient God's “thinking” about The Triangle is actually Go ...

one supposes that necessity is to be explained by supremely rational divine activity, this modal-logical result is not unwelcome ...

organism it is” can be understood in two ways. In the first, an organism's being the kind of organism it is depends on the kind ...

God must have those capacities that are essential to persons, including the capacities for reasoning, self-awareness, rememberin ...

we want. An integrated personality would be one in which desires and self-knowledge are in harmony. Theists presume that such in ...