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Jun 20, 2019
3 min

Why Care about the Theory of Divine Ideas? Part 1 of 2

Here is a sketch of some of the theological motivation for a theory of Divine Ideas. I also say something about what I take such a theory...

May 31, 2019
2 min

Divine Ideas and Egyptian Theology

I just "discovered" a text which is very well-known to Egyptologists and students of Ancient Egypt. Miriam Lichtheim published it as "The...

May 15, 2019
1 min

Religious Experience in Ancient Egypt

This week I'm reading a book about the development of monotheism in Ancient Egypt, James K. Hoffmeier's Akhenaten and the Origins of Mono...

May 15, 2019
1 min

Duns Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom

I have a new paper out today, "A Most Mitigated Friar: Scotus on Natural Law and Divine Freedom." It shows how Scotus reconciles the volu...

Mar 21, 2019
1 min

Scotism about Possible Natures

My latest journal article is now published by The Philosophical Quarterly. The title is "Scotism about Possible Natures," and it develops...

Feb 25, 2019
2 min

(I'm) Down with Immortality

Bernard Williams has a famous paper, "The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality." I've been studying the paper and he...

Feb 12, 2019
3 min

The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher in Defense of Civilization

Mr. Jeremy Fisher is a toad with a diverse set of friends which includes Mr. Alderman Ptolemy Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton, who is a new...

Feb 7, 2019
3 min

Divine Simplicity and the Division of Being

On a more or less standard Christian understanding of the world, God is the creator of everything that exists, other than himself. This c...

Feb 4, 2019
2 min

Worship-Worthiness

This semester's reading list has me thinking about Anselm's Proslogion back to back with Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will. Each boo...

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