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On Systematic Philosophical Theology
ON SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY Systematic philosophical theologies are rare—at least on the contemporary scene. Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology and Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Systematic Theology deserve to be called systematic philosophical theologie...
Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love?
Believers in the monotheistic tradition have always held that God is perfectly good, and Christian theologians have thought of God as the fount of all varieties of goodness, whether moral, metaphysical, aesthetic, or any other. Here my primary interest is in G...
God and Space
Just as an eternal God can be conceived to be either temporal or atemporal, so an omnipresent God can be conceived to be either spatial or aspatial, that is to say, either God may exist in space or God may transcend space. If God transcends space, then a reduc...
Christ, Our Indemnitor
I am grateful to Aaron Davis and Danielle Jansen for organizing this symposium on my book Atonement and the Death of Christ (ADC) and to the editors of Philosophia Christi for publishing our exchange. I think that ADC may well prove to be theologically the mos...
Mytho-History in Genesis
REPLY TO PETER LEITHART I’m grateful to Peter Leithart for his thought-provoking response. A couple of points are worth making in counter-response. 1. The genre analysis of Genesis 1-11 as mytho-history is quite plausible in light of the evidence. In chapter...
In Quest Of The Historical Adam
IN QUEST OF THE HISTORICAL ADAM Christians interested in the question of the historical Adam (and Eve) want to know the answers to two questions: (1) What are our biblical commitments as Christians with respect to the historical Adam? And (2) Is belief in a hi...
No Trouble
Eric Wielenberg argues that my “theistic account of the origin of the universe” is logically incoherent and should therefore be rejected. More specifically, my hypothesis “that the beginning of the universe was a temporal effect of a timeless...
A Reply to Wielenberg on a Temporal First Cause
I am grateful to the guest editors of Theologica for this opportunity to reply to Erik Wielenberg’s counter-response to my response to his critique of a theistic account of the origin of the universe. His counter-response is prompted by the fact that my ...
Is Penal Substitution Unsatisfactory?
1. Introduction In my book The Atonement I have argued that any biblically adequate atonement theory must include the notion of propitiation, that is to say, the appeasement of God’s just wrath against sin.[1] The source of God’s wrath is Hi...
Eleonore Stump’s Critique of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theories
Introduction In her rich and variegated book Atonement, Eleonore Stump presents her own novel theory of the atonement.[1] There is much of profit to be found here. Unfortunately, the opening section of her book is a vigorous critique of what she—m...