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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
This is part 5 of my ongoing series on Patrick Todd’s recently published book The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False (Oxford, 2021). (Previous installments: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4.) Chapter 5 is a relatively short chapter that initially focuses on how to understand divine omniscience in relation to… Read More »