Category Archives: divine providence

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 4 (Molinism) »

Critiquing Craig on Omniscience – Part 1 (Biblical Data)

Critiquing Craig on Divine Conceptualism and Aseity

Prominent Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig recently (2016) published a book God over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism (Oxford) focused on divine aseity, i.e., the idea that God exists a se, from Himself alone. Aseity is a standard commitment of monotheism. It means that nothing is more fundamental than God… Read More: Critiquing Craig on Divine Conceptualism and Aseity »

The Hexagon of Heresy – Part 3: Cosmology

This post is the third in a series on a recent book by James D. Gifford, Jr. titled The Hexagon of Heresy: A Historical and Theological Study of Definitional Divine Simplicity (Wipf & Stock, 2022). In the first post I discussed the problem of the One and the Many and why the idea of absolute… Read More: The Hexagon of Heresy – Part 3: Cosmology »

Seven Problems with Molinism

Here is my ranking of the most serious problems with Molinism. (For an explanation of Molinism, see Section 1 of this post.) This is not an exhaustive list, and I do not mean to suggest that items lower on the list are not of serious importance. The top 5 are ones that can be pressed… Read More: Seven Problems with Molinism »

The Hexagon of Heresy – Part 1: The Dialectic of the One and the Many

This blog post is the first in a series on a recent book by James D. Gifford, Jr. titled The Hexagon of Heresy: A Historical and Theological Study of Definitional Divine Simplicity (Wipf & Stock, 2022). I have several reasons for interest in this book. First, its discussion of “definitional divine simplicity” (DDS), which modern philosophers… Read More: The Hexagon of Heresy – Part 1: The Dialectic of… »

Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 11: Wyma

This is eleventh and final post in an eleven-part series responding to the essays in Ben Arbour’s edited volume, Philosophical Essays against Open Theism (Routledge, 2019). In this post I tackle chapter 11 by Keith Wyma, “Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins: Open Theism, Atonement, and the Pastoral Problem of Evil” (pp. 178–202). In this… Read More: Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 11: Wyma »

Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 10: Perszyk

After a several month blogging hiatus, I’m resuming my eleven-part series responding to the essays in Ben Arbour’s edited volume, Philosophical Essays against Open Theism (Routledge, 2019). In this post I tackle chapter 10 by Ken Perszyk, “Open Theism and the Soteriological Problem of Evil” (pp. 159–177). In this essay Perszyk compares and contrasts Open… Read More: Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 10: Perszyk »

On Hypertemporalism

There’s a theoretical way for God to exercise quasi-meticulous providence (if He wants to) while respecting creaturely freedom and doing so without either having middle knowledge or exhaustive definite foreknowledge. In short, you can get (nearly) all the advantages of Molinism without the internal incoherence and metaphysical baggage. This is not to say that the… Read More: On Hypertemporalism »

Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 9: Welty

This is part nine of eleven in a series responding to the essays in Ben Arbour’s edited volume, Philosophical Essays against Open Theism (Routledge, 2019). In this post I tackle chapter 9 by Greg Welty, “Open Theism, Risk-Taking, and the Problem of Evil” (pp. 140–158). Welty’s argument, roughly, is that open theism enjoys virtually no… Read More: Philosophical Essays against Open Theism – ch. 9: Welty »