A Physicalist View Of The Passion Of Christ

My project in this paper is to provide a plausible idea of Christ’s suffering and death in terms of a theory of the human person. More specifically, I want to contrast two major theories of the person-body relation. One is dualism. Dualism is the view that a human person is composed of two substances, that is, a soul and a body, and he (strictly speaking) is identical with the soul. On the other hand, physicalism is the view that a human person is numerically identical with his biological body. I will argue that dualism is not successful in explaining Christ’s passion for some reasons. Rather, physicalism, as I shall argue, provides a better explanation of how Christ’s physical suffering and death are real just like everyone else’s, so it is philosophically and theologically more plausible than dualism.

A Mea Culpa for The Felix Culpa? A Greater Goods Response to the Problems of Evil and Hell

In this paper I want to develop a particular kind of greater-good response to the problems of evil and hell, one which hence can serve as a backup plan should the free will defense not satisfy. Ultimately, this response will appear to belong to several traditions in theodicy. Like all greater-goods views, this one relies on explaining the existence of evil in terms of the greater goods that come out of it. Among these goods are the greater goods of Incarnation and Atonement, their respective goodness consisting in large part in the higher-order divine good of glorifying God through the display of divine virtue.

Religion, Democracy and the Public Sphere

Throughout the development and maturation of the American democratic experience, religiously inspired conduct has contributed significantly to democratically progressive political concerns such as the abolition of slavery and campaigns for civil rights, but also the encouragement and perpetuation pf anti-democratic practices such as the institution of slavery and policies of racial segregation. It may be rarely admitted, but there is no essential conceptual affinity between conduct proper to democratic political association. It may, therefore, be useful in our own political circumstances to try to determine boundaries for conduct that expresses and satisfies compatibly both religious and democratic commitments. Perhaps most Americans do recognize – if not in their own cases, at least in reference to the beliefs and actions of others – that religiously inspired conduct is neither thereby justified morally or legally nor absolved from further critical appraisal. Certainly, the history of American legal practice shows that religious belief or inspiration does not serve as acceptable legal defense for conduct charged as criminal infraction. The U.S. Constitution contains only two references to religion: the non-establishment clause prohibits governmental institutionalization of religious beliefs or liberty rights – is limited in scope and application both by other constitutional rights of individuals and by constitutionally authorized powers of government. As the U.S.S.C. has repeatedly held, individual constitutional features must be understood in a manner that harmonizes all stated and implied constitutional features, not by unbridled abstractions of selected phrases. Under the American legal system, there is no absolute or unlimited right to free exercise of religion: not everything done publicly under religious inspiration is legally permissible; what is otherwise illegal conduct is not legalized by religious inspiration. In important respects, general features of the legal boundaries concerning religiously inspired conduct in public life are reasonably clear; nevertheless, broader issues concerning further moral or ethical constraints upon religiously inspired conduct remain unresolved and rarely addressed explicitly.

Molinism, Open Theism, and Moral Luck

It is sometimes thought that the choice between Molinism and open theism involves a trade-off in values: Molinism asserts that God has providential power but allows God indirectly to manipulate that in virtue of which human beings are to be judged; while open theism grants human beings more power over that in virtue of which they are tp be judged, but at the price of giving up providence. I argue here that this picture is misconstrued---that Molinism gives human agents more power over that in virtue of which they may be judged than does open theism. Since open theism confines the possible avenues for evaluating agents to their behavior in the actual world, open theism is incompatible with any solution to the problem of moral luck which appeals to counterfactual behavior, and so (I argue) is impugned by the problem,. Molinists, by contrast, have a promising solution to that problem.

Kierkegaardian philosophy in the faith of a scholar,

"The addresses ... were given at various times and upon various occasions ... between 1927 and 1936."

Znak.

Latest issue consulted: R. 49, 4 = 503 (1997).

Rational theology and Christian philosophy in England in the seventeenth century /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays by the late Mark Pattison, sometime rector of Lincoln college;

Vol. 1. Gregory of Tours.--Early intercourse of England and Germany.--Antecedents of the Reformation.--The Stephenses.--Muretus.--Joseph Scaliger.--Life of Joseph Scaliger (Fragment).--Peter Daniel Huet.--A chapter of university history.--F.A. Wolf.--Oxford Studies.--Vol. 2. Calvin at Geneva.--Tendencies of religious thought in England, 1688-1750.--Life of Bishop Warburton.--The Calas tragedy.--Present state of theology in Germany (1857).--Learning in the Church of England.--Philanthropic societies in the reign of Queen Anne.--Life of Montaigne.--Pope and his editors.--Buckle's History of civilization in England.

Religion in the Victorian era.

Mode of access: Internet.

Ancient worship : a compilation from the histories of the gods of antiquity, showing the worship accorded them, with some account of religion as first propagated among mankind, also a description of the countries of antiquity, and how they were first inhabited, as set forth in the writings of the most ancient historians /

Mode of access: Internet.

A compendious view of the evidences of natural and revealed religion : being the substance of lectures read in the University and King's College of Aberdeen /

Includes bibliographical references.

Des prédicateurs du XVIIe siècle avant Bossuet : thèse présentée à la Faculté des lettres de Paris /

Appendix contains an unpublished fragment of a sermon of Cardinal de Retz.

The Homiletic review

"An international monthly magazine of current religious thought, sermonic literature and discussion of practical issues." (varies)

Prières et fragments religieux /

Mode of access: Internet.

"Sorrow Brought Forth Joy": Feelings of Faith in American Literature

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06