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God and the Moment of Creation
I’m an undergraduate philosophy student, and I have a question about your theory that God is in time with creation and timeless sans creation. While this view seems to be internally coherent, I’m struggling to identify a strong motivation to accept this po...
agent causation, creation, infinite temporal regress, time, relation to god, timelessness
Legal Pardon, Tensed Time, and the Expiation of Guilt
LEGAL PARDON, TENSED TIME, AND THE EXPIATION OF GUILT In this paper I wish to explore the relation between legal pardon, tensed time, and the expiation of guilt. The distinction between personal forgiveness and legal pardon is well-known and widely recognized ...
Time, Tense, and Eternity
TIME, TENSE, AND ETERNITY “God,” declares the prophet Isaiah, “is the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity” (Is. 57.15). But being a prophet and not a philosophical theologian, Isaiah did not pause to reflect upon the nature of divine eternity. Min...
Review: A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos by Geraint Lewis and Luke Barnes
Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ISBN 078-1-107-15661-6. Authored by a senior and a junior astrophysicist at the University of Sydney, this book is an open-en...
Advice Well-Taken
ADVICE WELL-TAKEN Other contributors to this volume can doubtless be depended on to offer analysis and philosophical reflection upon Plantinga’s “Advice to Christian Philosophers.” Instead, I should like to share something more of a personal memoir about...
On the Organic Connection Between Jesus' Atoning Death and Resurrection
ON THE ORGANIC CONNECTION BETWEEN JESUS’ ATONING DEATH AND RESURRECTION Introduction Penal substitution in a theological context may be defined as the doctrine that God inflicted upon Christ the suffering which we deserved as the punishment for our sins, as ...
Response to "Mere Theistic Evolution"
RESPONSE TO “MERE THEISTIC EVOLUTION” Introduction One of the things I appreciate about Michael Murray and John Churchill’s paper is their candid embrace of the label, “theistic evolution,” for their view. This strikes me as much more accurate and st...
Pannenberg’s Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus
Chapter 4 Pannenberg’s Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus Pannenberg’s Argument for Jesus’s Resurrection Although prominent New Testament scholars like N. T. Wright, Dale Allison, and Michael Licona, as well as prominent philosophers like Richard Swi...