A few weeks ago I wrote about omnipotence, partly because I think it’s an important topic and partly in preparation for my planned review/critique of Tom Oord’s (2023) The Death of Omnipotence book. While working on the first installment of my review it became clear to me that I need to do some careful thinking… Read More: Power, Control, Influence, and Agency »
I’ve recently been reading a book critical of open theism by the late Ben Arbour. In later chapters he contends that open future open theism presupposes presentism as the ontology of time and claims, without any supporting argument other than footnotes to an essay by Tom Crisp, that presentism is metaphysically contingent. That is, Arbour… Read More: A Theological Argument for Necessary Presentism »
I intend in the near future to do an extended blog review/critique of Tom Oord’s provocatively titled book The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence (2023). Partially in preparation for that, I thought I should do some reflection on the concept of omnipotence. This is me grappling with the topic from my “armchair.”… Read More: Thinking about Omnipotence »
Prominent Christian philosopher, apologist, and analytic theologian William Lane Craig is in the process of releasing his magnum opus, a 5-volume Systematic Philosophical Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2025–2026). Volume 2a (released in 2025) focuses on God’s attributes and includes a 100-page chapter on omniscience. Now aged 76, Craig presumably intends this chapter to be the crowning… Read More: Critiquing Craig on Omniscience – Part 4 (Molinism) »
Prominent Christian philosopher, apologist, and analytic theologian William Lane Craig is in the process of releasing his magnum opus, a 5-volume Systematic Philosophical Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2025–2026). Volume 2a (released in 2025) focuses on God’s attributes and includes a 100-page chapter on omniscience. Now aged 76, Craig presumably intends this chapter to be the crowning… Read More: Critiquing Craig on Omniscience – Part 3 (Foreknowledge) »
Prominent Christian philosopher, apologist, and analytic theologian William Lane Craig is in the process of releasing his magnum opus, a 5-volume Systematic Philosophical Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2025–2026). Volume 2a (released in 2025) focuses on God’s attributes and includes a 100-page chapter on omniscience. Now aged 76, Craig presumably intends this chapter to be the crowning… Read More: Critiquing Craig on Omniscience – Part 2 (Defining Omniscience) »
Prominent Christian philosopher, apologist, and analytic theologian William Lane Craig is in the process of releasing his magnum opus, a 5-volume Systematic Philosophical Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2025–2026). Volume 2a (released in 2025) focuses on God’s attributes and includes a 100-page chapter on omniscience. Now aged 76, Craig presumably intends this chapter to be the crowning… Read More: Critiquing Craig on Omniscience – Part 1 (Biblical Data) »
If you were to survey what analytic philosophers have said about God’s omniscience over the past 50 years or so, you’d find that the vast majority of them define omniscience in strictly propositional terms. For example, William Lane Craig in vol. 2a of his recent Systematic Philosophical Theology (2025), defends the following definition of omniscience… Read More: Rethinking Knowledge and Omniscience »
Back in 2011, I wrote a paper called “The Fivefold Openness of the Future” in which I argued that if the future is causally open (i.e., not wholly causally determined) then there are strong reasons to think that it is ontically, alethically, epistemically, and providentially open as well. In my 2024 book Open Theism I strengthened… Read More: Modality, Fatalism, and the Modal Openness of the Future »
The Unity of the Church What defines, or rather, what should define, the “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic” Church? In what does the unity of the Christian Church (chiefly) consist? One can find many different answers to this question depending on whom one asks, but most answers can be categorized under four main headings: (1)… Read More: What Is the Church? »