Today, I was a guest on John Petersen’s YouTube channel to talk about God as a necessary being. I parachuted […]
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Does God’s perfection undermine petitionary prayer?
In the comment thread to my latest podcast, “Travis Dumsday on the atheist’s duty to pray,” philosopher Robert Gressis offered an objection […]
Anselm, foreknowledge, God, perfect being, petitionary prayer, providencePerfect Divine Being, Perfect Divine Commands
Yesterday one of my readers, Mark, raised the following objection to divine command theories of ethics: “It’s certainly conceivable that […]
divine command ethics, ethics, God, perfect being, theismWhy biblical theologians need philosophical theology
I have enjoyed having a discussion with my colleague Jerry Shepherd. I think that the fact that we can have […]
Anselm, biblical theology, Jerry Shepherd, perfect being, philosophical theology, philosophy, theologyCould God be other than maximally loving? Yet another response to Jerry
Jerry asks: “You say that God is “maximally loving” and that God maximizes his glory. My question for you is, […]
Anselm, Jerry Shepherd, perfect being, theologyGod is maximally great, God is perfectly good, so we can thank him in every possible world
There has been much ado about the ontological argument, most of it skeptical. In response to the chorus of incredulity, […]
Anselm, God, modality, necessity, ontological argument, perfect being, possible world, theistic proof