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21. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
Paul Helm Paul Helm
Divine Causation and Analogy
Boska Przyczynowość a Analogia

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Quentin Smith’s idea is that God being the originating cause of the universe is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causation, and thus logically impossible. Thus, for example the God of the Philosophers couldn’t have created the Universe, not even in both its senses, in both literal and analogical senses. The thesis is advanced by accounts of the usual views of “cause”. It is maintained these is successful. Such I shall then offer an account of divine causation of my own, and thus attempt to argue that Smith has not shown that the relation that God has to the universe is not a causal relation. Such as a Humean or that of David Lewis sense and of the “singularist” view of C. J. Ducasse would fail the analogical. And Malebranche’s “occasionalism” is surely an exception. If we turn to the other kind then it seems to be a case of “if the data are analogical-in, then the data will be that too”. Finally, it is argued that it is more productive to consider particular individual theistic powers and perfections, for these are mongrels which literality and of analogy are compounded.
22. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
Jacek Wojtysiak Jacek Wojtysiak
A Bigger God and the Pre-Creation Situation: Some Remarks Inspired by William Hasker
Większy Bóg i Sytuacja Przed Stworzeniem

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In the present essay, while entering into discussion with William Hasker, I addressed two divine dilemmas in “the pre-creation situation.” My considerations focused on the reasons for creating a world—the love (grace) reason and the manifestation reason—which in some way prevailed over the reasons against creating a world (the no need reason and the imperfection reason) and whose concurrence prompted the image of an (rather relatively) optimal creatable world. It turns out that the latter resembles both our world and the world suggested by Hasker’s theism. In that world, God has brought to existence both what is unworthy (thus showing his grace in a special way) and what displays high degrees of excellence (thus manifesting his glory). On this view, the eschatological conclusion of the world would be the full actualization of divine grace and of the manifestation of God. In the final part of the essay, I attempted to show that my view does not entail the rejection of the idea of divine impassibility.
23. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
Robert C. Koons Robert C. Koons
Some Puzzles about Molinist Conditionals
Wybrane Problemy Molinistycznych Okresów Warunkowych

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William Hasker has been one of the most trenchant and insightful critics of the revival of Molinism. He has focused on the “freedom problem”, a set of challenges designed to show that Molinism does not secure a place for genuinely free human action (HASKER 1986, 1995, 1999, 2000a, 2000b, 2011). These challenges focus on a key element in the Molinist story: the counterfactual (or subjunctive) conditionals of creaturely freedom. According to Molinism, these conditionals have contingent truth-values that are knowable to God prior to His decision of what world to actualize. This divine “middle knowledge” is supposed to enable God to execute a detailed plan for world history without any loss of creaturely freedom. Hasker has argued that this middle knowledge nonetheless deprives us of the power to do otherwise than we do, a crucial element in human freedom and responsibility.
24. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
Dariusz Łukasiewicz Dariusz Łukasiewicz
On William Hasker’s Theodicy, the Doctrine of Continuous Creation and the Nature of Morality
O Teodycei Williama Haskera, Doktrynie Ciągłego Stwarzania i Naturze Moralności

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In the article, I present the main assumptions of the natural-order theodicy and the free-will theodicy defended by William Hasker. Next, I pose the question of whether Hasker’s theodicies are compatible with the Christian doctrine of continuous creation accepted by Hasker himself. I consider several different ways of how the doctrine of continuous creation can be understood and the difficulties associated with them. Finally, I propose a modified conception of continuous creation and I claim that it is consistent with the main assumptions of William Hasker’s theodicies.
25. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
Joseph Jedwab Joseph Jedwab
A Neo-Lockean Theory of the Trinity and Incarnation
Neolocke’Owska Teoria Trójcy Świętej i Wcielenia

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I present two problems: the logical problem of the Trinity and the metaphysical problem of Incarnation. I propose a solution to both problems: a Neo-Lockean theory of the Trinity and Incarnation, which applies a Neo-Lockean theory of personal identity to the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation.
26. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
William Hasker Reply to My Friendly Critics
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27. Roczniki Filozoficzne: Volume > 70 > Issue: 1
William Hasker’s Bibliography
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