Extract 7: Hume and Jesus’ resurrection
Hume and Jesus’ resurrection Source: Infidels.org Hume’s argument against miracles makes its case against miracles on the grounds 1) that one must…
Read MoreExtract 6: Maurice Wiles – Miracles as immoral acts
Immoral Acts Maurice Wiles (1929 – 2005), former Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University and former chairman of the Church…
Read MoreExtract 5: Wittgenstein Miracles as gesture
Miracles as Gesture Source: Internet Encylopaedia of Philosophy This leaves open the question of how we are to identify an event…
Read MoreExtract 4: Coincidence miracles and RT Holland
Coincidence miracles and RT Holland R.F. Holland gives the example of a child on a railroad track who is playing around…
Read MoreExtract 3: Process Theology and The Problem Of Evil
Process theology of A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne and the Problem of Evil Source: stanford.edu A central contention of process theism is…
Read MoreExtract 10: Aquinas God’s Omnibenevolence
Aquinas God’s Omnibenevolence It is written: “God is love” (John 4:16). We must needs assert that in God there is love:…
Read MoreEXTRACT 2 Caritas in veritate Business ethics and RC Church
Extract: Caritas and veritate – business ethics and Christian approaches 45. Striving to meet the deepest moral needs of the person…
Read MoreExtract 9: Omnibenevolence, sin and judgement
Omnibenevolence, sin and judgement If God creates us and wills that we be safe forever in eternal life with him, how…
Read MoreExtract 7: Boethius – does God know the future?
The Eternal Now source: iep One way to challenge the conclusion of the incompatibility of free will and God’s knowledge of…
Read MoreExtract 6: Knowledge and God’s simplicity
Knowledge and God’s Simplicity Source: iep.utm.edu According to Aquinas, God is not dependent for his existence on anything, including his attributes….
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