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View article: The theology of suffering and mental distress
The theology of suffering and mental distress Open
In understanding the intersection of religion and psychopathology it is vital, clinically and philosophically, to attend to internal – theological – perspectives on mental distress. This article explores the Christian theology of mental di…
View article: On Omnipotence
On Omnipotence Open
The doctrine that God is unlimited in power has been challenged recently by figures such as Thomas Oord and Philip Goff. This article responds to these challenges from the perspective of classical theism. It is argued that omnipotence foll…
View article: Liberating God: Classical Theism and Political Spirituality
Liberating God: Classical Theism and Political Spirituality Open
Accounts of spirituality are incomplete unless they take into account what I term political spirituality, the working out of religiously motivated political commitment. Working within the Christian tradition, I examine the interaction betw…
View article: McCabe on Marx
McCabe on Marx Open
Herbert McCabe was unique amongst the grammatical thomists in making significant use of the thought of Karl Marx. He engaged, moreover, with two topics in Marx which have generally been avoided by Christian theologians: class struggle and …
View article: Human Beings and Ethics in the Thought of Herbert McCabe
Human Beings and Ethics in the Thought of Herbert McCabe Open
Cartesian pictures of the human self and act-centred understandings of ethics dominate modern thought. Throughout his work, Herbert McCabe challenges these, and as such remains an important resource for philosophical and theological ethics…
View article: Aquinas on the Immortality of the Soul: Some Reflections
Aquinas on the Immortality of the Soul: Some Reflections Open
Aquinas's thoughts about the human soul present us with a puzzle. On the one hand, Thomas has been applauded within the analytic tradition as an anti‐dualistic thinker, who emphasises the animal nature of human beings and denies that there…
View article: Does living Christianity support personhood theism?
Does living Christianity support personhood theism? Open
Personhood theism is the view that God exists and is a person. It is often claimed that, whatever conclusions might be reached abstractly by philosophers and theologians, Christianity as lived out practically embodies belief in personhood …
View article: We Belong Together: A Plea for Modesty in Modal Plural Logic
We Belong Together: A Plea for Modesty in Modal Plural Logic Open
A sceptical examination of the motivations for strong modal plural logics.
View article: Philosophy and living religion: an introduction
Philosophy and living religion: an introduction Open
KEYWORDS: Philosophy of religionworld religionsWittgensteinpraxisemotioncontexts and communitiespolitics and religionnarrativeaestheticspedagogy
View article: God is not a person (an argument via pantheism)
God is not a person (an argument via pantheism) Open
This paper transforms a development of an argument against pantheism into an objection to the usual account of God within contemporary analytic philosophy ('Swinburnian theism'). A standard criticism of pantheism has it that pantheists can…
View article: A Note on Gabriel Uzquiano’s “Varieties of Indefinite Extensibility”
A Note on Gabriel Uzquiano’s “Varieties of Indefinite Extensibility” Open
Gabriel Uzquiano has offered an account of indefinite extensibility for sets in the context of a modal logic. The modal operators are interpreted in terms of linguistic extensibility. After reviewing the proposal, I argue that the view sho…
View article: Rosy with Sider? The Case of the Metaphysical Liar
Rosy with Sider? The Case of the Metaphysical Liar Open
An important trend in contemporary metaphysics denies that the structure of natural language is an important datum for investigating fundamental structure. Ted Sider proceeds on this basis to propose a metaphysical semantics for natural la…
View article: Frege's theorem in plural logic
Frege's theorem in plural logic Open
A version of Frege's theorem can be proved in a plural logic with pair abstraction. We talk through this and discuss the philosophical implications of the result.