The Analytic Scholastic

In this post I am going to try to defend Aquinas's First Way, specifically against the attacks brought against it by my friend Alex . Al...

The traditional story of Abraham and Isaac is one of the most perplexing parts of the Bible, at least for philosophers. There seems to be so...

One common fallacy is the fallacy of composition, where one argues from the fact that each part of a thing has a certain feature to the conc...

So, I want to get a bit more clear on what the grounding objection to Molinism is saying. As far as I can tell at this moment, the grounding...

In this post I will consider two arguments which have at times been brought up in connection with the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA), whi...

If you are a believer, this argument might appeal to you: (1) It's absolutely wrong to blaspheme against God, as in swearing at God.  ...

Dr. William Lane Craig has made a response to my previous post where I argued that his own view of divine sovereignty entails the truth o...

...to my post on divine simplicity, here .

Just a note: I will probably be laying kind of low for a while, since I am now moved in at my new school and taking summer courses. I will b...

William Lane Craig, as with most contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, objects to the classical Thomistic idea that God cannot be...

In my last post I explained that God does not cause1 our free actions, but only cause2's them; hence, there can be no conflict between ...

This post comes out of a very large and high-quality discussion on predestination on Facebook. If you don't have Facebook you should rea...

My logic teacher and I were reflecting on the ontological argument and we came up with this. Forgive the cheap operators. A perfection is a ...

In contemporary debates about the existence of God it is common to hear reference to 'the traditional divine attributes.' These incl...

Introduction: What does God's omnibenevolence consist in? I think that we need to do a little more work on fully explaining what we mea...

The following argument is taken from a paper by Alexander Pruss. What I'm concerned about is the questions that it raises about God...