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From Easter to Valentinus and the Apostles' Creed Once More: A Critical Examination of James Robinson's Proposed Resurrection Appearance Trajectories
Introduction Several years ago in his SBL Presidential Address, James Robinson sought to delineate three related sets of parallel trajectories stretching from a common origin in primitive Christianity to their termini in second-century Gnosticism and in creda...
On the Alleged Metaphysical Superiority of Timelessness
In his recent study Time and Eternity, Brian Leftow maintains that timeless existence is metaphysically superior to temporal existence. [1] He argues at great length that timeless beings have a higher degree of existence, in view of their truer prese...
Adams on Actualism and Presentism
In his article, "Time and Thisness," Robert Adams had argued, "My thisness, and singular propositions about me, cannot have pre-existed me because if they had, it would have been possible for them to have existed even if I had never existed, and that is not po...
Review of <em>Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity</em>, by Graham Oppy. <em>Philosophia Christi</em> 10 (2008): 201-08.
Graham Oppy's book is a wide-ranging discussion of the role played by the infinite in various fields of study, including pure mathematics, physics, probability theory, mereology, and related fields, as well as an examination of various philosophical puzzle...
Forum on the Resurrection with William Lane Craig
M: Scientifically speaking, there’s nothing anyone knows or anything that remotely proves that that event could occur. There’s pretty much no evidence supporting it at all. As far as I know, unless I’m missing something. Dr. C: I think that&...
Can We Be Good without God?
Can we be good without God? At first the answer to this question may seem so obvious that even to pose it arouses indignation. For while those of us who are Christian theists undoubtedly find in God a source of moral strength and resolve which enables us to li...
Talbott's Universalism
Introduction In a pair of recently published articles, [1] Thomas Talbott has presented a carefully constructed case for universalism. He contends that from the principle (P3) Necessarily, God loves a person S (with a perfect form of love) at a ti...
The Guard at the Tomb
Of the canonical gospels, only Matthew relates the intriguing story of the setting of a guard at the tomb of Jesus (Mt. 27. 62-66; 28. 4, 11-1 5). The story serves an apologetic purpose: the refutation of the allegation that the disciples had themselves stolen...
Divine Timelessness and Personhood
It is frequently alleged by detractors of divine timelessness that the concept of a timeless person is incoherent, that the properties essential to personhood cannot be exemplified timelessly. Since it is essential to theism that God be personal, it follows th...
Tachyons, Time Travel, and Divine Omniscience
For philosophers in either field, philosophy of science and philosophy of religion are too often viewed as mutually irrelevant disciplines. As a result, insights acquired in each field may not be appropriated by philosophers working in the other field. This is...