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1. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Mark C. Murphy Divine Command, Divine Will, and Moral Obligation
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In this article I consider the respective merits of three interpretations of divine command theory. On DCT1, S’s being morally obligated to φ depends on God’s command that S φ; on DCT2, that moral obligation depends on God’s willing that S be morally obligated to φ; on DCT3, that moral obligation depends on God’s willing that S φ. I argue that the positive reasons that have been brought forward in favor of DCT1 have implications theists would find disturbing and that the positive reasons brought forward in favor of DCT2 support only a weak formulation of DCT2 that is indistinguishable from other theistic moral theories. DCT3 is, however, a distinctive theory that theists have strong reasons to affirm.
2. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
George Connell Deconstructing Caputo’s Demythologizing Heidegger
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John Caputo’s Demythologizing Heidegger represents an important, distinctive, and intriguing attempt to make sense of Heidegger’s notorious involvement with Nazism. Where others have tended to emphasize biographical and sociological factors in understanding Heidegger’s involvement with Nazism, Caputo traces that involvement to fateful turns in Heidegger’s development as a thinker. While I am sympathetic with such an undertaking, I find Caputo’s account highly questionable and even self-opposed, especially as regards hisapparent valorization of Kierkegaard and of biblical faith as influences that could have saved Heidegger from Nazism had he not turned away from them in favor of Nietzsche and the presocratic Greeks.
3. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Peter Forrest Answers to Prayers and Conditional Situations
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In this paper I defend the Direct Actualisation of Conditional Situations as a way of explaining how God answers prayers without assuming that God acts on the world after the prayer is made. My hypothesis states that God, in creating, brings about conditionals without either preventing the antecedent or bringing about the consequent. I compare this hypothesis with some rivals, notably the appeals to foreknowledge and to middle knowledge.
4. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
William Hasker The Foundations of Theism: Scoring the Quinn-Plantinga Debate
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In the extensive literature that has accumulated around Reformed epistemology, some of the most interesting material is found in the debate on the foundations of theism between Philip Quinn and Alvin Plantinga. This essay assesses that debate and draws some tentative conclusions.
5. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
J. P. Moreland Searle’s Biological Naturalism and the Argument from Consciousness
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In recent years, Robert Adams and Richard Swinburne have developed an argument for God’s existence from the reality of mental phenomena. Call this the argument from consciousness (AC). My purpose is to develop and defend AC and to use it as a rival paradigm to critique John Searle’s biological naturalism. The article is developed in three steps. First, two issues relevant to the epistemic task of adjudicating between rival scientific paradigms (basicality and naturalness) are clarified and illustrated. Second, I present a general version of AC and identify the premises most likely to come under attack by philosophical naturalists. Third, I use the insights gained in steps one and two to criticize Searle’s claim that he has developed an adequate naturalistic theory of the emergence of mental entities. I conclude that AC is superior to Searle’s biological naturalism.
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6. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Michael Czapkay Sudduth Calvin, Plantinga, and the Natural Knowledge of God: A Response to Beversluis
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In this paper I present a critical response to several claims made by John Beversluis on the closely allied topics of natural knowledge of God and the noetic effects of sin in relation to the work of John Calvin and Alvin Plantinga. I challenge Beversluis’ claim that Plantinga has misconstrued Calvin’s position on the sensus divinitatis and that he has weakened Calvin’s doctrine of the noetic effects of sin. Moreover, I develop a coherent case for the sense in which Calvin maintains that fallen humans do and do not have a natural knowledge of God. My conclusion rebuts Beversluis’ claim that Calvin denies any natural knowledge of God for fallen human persons and defends Plantinga’s philosophical account of Calvin’s sensus divinitatis.
book reviews
7. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Janie Daurio Responsibility and Christian Ethics
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8. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
David Reiter Divine Discourse
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9. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Gyula Klima Aquinas on Mind
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Kevin Meeker The Evidential Argument from Evil
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George Mavrodes The Concept of Faith: A Philosophical Investigation
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12. Faith and Philosophy: Volume > 15 > Issue: 1
Notes and News
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