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Number 1 Spring 2018Volume 10

EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

THEME OF THE ISSUE:

NEW ESSAYS IN EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGION

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Roger POUIVETAgainst Theistic Personalism: What Modern Epistemology does to Classical Theism .................................1–19

Jacek Rafał WOJTYSIAKTwo Epistemological Arguments for the Existence of God .........................21–30

Raphael LATASTERThe Problem of Alternative Monotheisms: Another Serious Challenge to Theism .........................................................31–51

Ireneusz ZIEMIŃSKIPhilosophy of Religion as Way to Skepticism ..............................................53–65

Paul CLAVIERGod as Ultimate Truthmaker .........................................................................67–80

Miłosz HOŁDAThe Embodied Mind of God .........................................................................81–96

Paul O’GRADYEpistemology and Wellbeing ......................................................................97–116

Stanisław JUDYCKIHow Do We Recognize God .................................................................... 117–128

Dariusz ŁUKASIEWICZEpistemic Deism and Probabilistic Theism ............................................ 129–140

David HOLLEYHumble Confessionalism ......................................................................... 141–161

Jeremy KOONSTheism and the Criminalization of Sin ....................................................163–187

BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES

Andrew Loke, God and Ultimate Origins: A Novel Cosmological Argument.Reviewed by Joshua Rasmussen ..............................................................189–194

R.T. Mullins, The End of the Timeless God.Reviewed by Ciro De Florio .....................................................................194–198

Duane Armitage, Heidegger’s Pauline and Lutheran Roots. Reviewed by Tyler Tritten ........................................................................198–203

Number 4 Winter 2017Volume 9


BOOK SYMPOSIUM

John Martin FISCHERPrécis of “Our Fate: Essays on God and Free Will” .........................................1–2

T. Ryan BYERLYThe Indirect Response To The Foreknowledge Argument .............................3–12

Thomas P. FLINTHow to Keep Dialectically Kosher: Fischer, Freedom, and Foreknowledge ..............................................................................................13–24

Christoph JÄGERFischer’s Fate with Fatalism .........................................................................25–38

Penelope MACKIEFischer and the Fixity of the Past . ..................................................................39–50

Philip SWENSONFischer on Foreknowledge and Explanatory Dependence ..........................51–61

John Martin FISCHERReplies to my Critics .....................................................................................63–85

RESEARCH ARTICLES

René van WOUDENBERG & Hans van EYGHENMost Peers Don’t Believe It, Hence It Is Probably False ............................87–112

Samuel DIRECTORWhy the Perfect Being Theologian Cannot Endorse the Principle of Alternative Possibilities ..........................................................113–131

Piotr ROSZAKAnalogical Understanding of Divine Causality in Thomas Aquinas .... 133–153

Ben PAGEThe ‘Power’-ful Trinity ............................................................................ 155–180

R. T. MULLINSHasker on the Divine Processions of the Trinitarian Persons................ 181–216

DISCUSSIONS AND REPLIES

William HASKER“God’s Only Begotten Son”: A Reply to R. T. Mullins ............................. 217–237

Alex YOUSIFAbductive Reasoning and an Omnipotent God: A Response to Daniel Came: ................................................................... 239–244

Number 3 Autumn 2017Volume 9


THEME OF THE ISSUE: DEBATING RATIONALITY OF SECOND-ORDER RELIGIOUS BELIEF


R. Douglas GEIVETTIs There a Dilemma for First-Order Supernaturalist Belief? ........................1–15

Kelly James CLARKImaginings ....................................................................................................17–30

Paul K. MOSERFirst-Order Theistic Religion: Intentional Power Beyond Belief ................31–48

Stephen R. L. CLARKSupernatural Explanations and Inspirations ..............................................49–63

Vladimir SHOKHINWhy Atheism has not Become a Subject of Philosophy of Religion .................65–80

Peter MILLICANDefending the Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: One Author’s Reply to Abram, Heim, Łukasiewicz, Moser, Oppy, Salamon, Senor, Taliaferro & Porot ..........................................................81–106

Daniel von WACHTERNaturalistic Explanations of Religious Beliefs ........................................ 107–114

Janusz SALAMONIn Defence of Agatheism: Clarifying a Good-Centred Interpretation of Religious Pluralism ........ 115–138

ARTICLES

Daniel F. LIMExperimental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion ........................... 139–158

Vesa PALONEN A Bayesian Baseline for Belief in Uncommon Events ............................ 159–175

Yishai COHEN Atonement’s Axiological Boundaries ...................................................... 177–195

Thomas G. PARKWhy the Sponsorship of Korean Shamanic Healing Rituals is Best Explained by the Clients’ Ostensible Reasons .......................................................... 197–220


Klaas Kraay (ed.): God and the Multiverse: Scientific, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives.Reviewed by Bruce Langtry .....................................................................221–225

Jean-Luc Marion, Givenness and Revelation. Trans. by Stephen E. Lewis.Reviewed by J. Aaron Simmons ...............................................................225–230

Paul K. Moser, The God Relationship. The Ethics for Inquiry about the Divine. Reviewed by Joshua Cockayne ................................................................230–234

Number 2 Summer 2017Volume 9


SPECIAL ISSUE: NATURAL THEOLOGY REVISITED

ARTICLES

Olli-Pekka VAINIONatural Theology: A Recent History .............................................................. 1-18

Trent DOUGHERTY and Brandon RICKABAUGHNatural Theology, Evidence, and Epistemic Humility ................................ 19-42

Kelly James CLARKAtheism and Inferential Bias ....................................................................... 43-56

Helen DE CRUZ & Johan DE SMEDTArgument and Intuition: Cognitive Foundations of Argumentation in Natural Theology ........................................................... 57-82

Rope KOJONENNatural Theology in Evolution: A Review of Critiques and Changes ............ 83-117

Ilmari KARIMIESLutheran Perspective on Natural Theology ............................................. 119-138

Amber GRIFFIOEN“Signs for a People Who Reason”: Religious Experience and Natural Theology ........................................... 139-163

Mats WAHLBERGA Cosmological Argument against Physicalism ...................................... 165-188

Panu-Matti PÖYKKÖJean-Luc Marion on the Divine and Taking the “Third Way” ................189-211


Paul K. MOSER and Clinton NEPTUNEIs Traditional Natural Theology Cognitively Presumptuous? ................. 213-222

Dariusz ŁUKASIEWICZ Agathological Rationalism and First-Order Religions ............................ 223-229


Trent Dougherty and Justin P. McBrayer (eds.): Skeptical Theism: New Essays.Reviewed by Tyron Goldschmidt .............................................................231-234

Tyron Goldschmidt (ed.): The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Reviewed by Joshua Rasmussen ...............................................................235-240

Adam Green and Eleonore Stump (eds.): Hidden Divinity and Religious Belief: New Perspectives.Reviewed by Tyler M. Taber ......................................................................240-243

Hud Hudson: The Fall and Hypertime. Reviewed by Jon Robson ...........................................................................244-248

Number 1 Spring 2017Volume 9


ARTICLES

William MANDEROn the Consistency of Pantheism ........................................................................1

Daniel CAMETheism and Contrastive Explanation ................................................................19

Aaron RIZZIERIThe Practice of Assertion under Conditions of Religious Ignorance ................27

Moti MIZRAHISkeptheism: Is Knowledge of God’s Existence Possible? ....................................41

Roslyn WEISSWaiting For Godo… And Godan: Completing Rowe’s Critique of The Ontological Argument ..............................65

R. Scott SMITHCraig’s Nominalism and the High Cost Of Preserving Divine Aseity ...............87

Daniel SAUDEKMiracles and Violations of Laws of Nature .....................................................109

W. Matthews GRANTMoral Evil, Privation, and God .......................................................................125

Jeremy W. SKRZYPEKA Better Solution to the General Problem of Creation ..................................147

Jonathan C. RUTLEDGE An Epistemological Corrective to Doctrines of Assurance ..............................163

Ryan M. PARKER and Bradley RETTLERA Possible-Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer ....................179


Jeffrey JORDANDivine Hiddenness and Perfect Love ...............................................................187

J. L. SCHELLENBERGResponse to Jordan ...........................................................................................203


Robert MacSwain, Solved by Sacrifice: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of FaithReviewed by Sergio Sorrentino ........................................................................209

Kevin Timpe, Free Will in Philosophical TheologyReviewed by Benjamin Matheson ....................................................................212

Aaron Rizzieri, Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief and PracticeReviewed by Martin Smith ................................................................................221

Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion?Reviewed by Jakub Urbaniak ............................................................................224

Patrick McNamara, The Neuroscience of Religious Experience.Reviewed by Raymond Aaron Younis .............................................................229

EUROPEAN JOURNALFOR PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

VOLUME 8 NUMBER 4 WINTER 2016

THE THEME OF THE ISSUE

DIVINE HIDDENNESS

Stephen R.L. CLARKWho is God 1

Michael SCOTT & Gabriel CITRONWhat is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God 23

Julian PERLMUTTERDesiring the Hidden God: Knowledge Without Belief 51

Trent DOUGHERTYReflections on the Deep Connection Between Problems of Evil and Problems of Divine Hiddenness 65

Liz JACKSONWagering Against Divine Hiddenness 85

Joshua BLANCHARDDivine Hiddenness and the God of Israel 109

Hami VERBINMoses Maimonides on Job’s Happiness and the Riddle of Divine Transcendence 125

Jeffrey HANSONInfinite Striving and the Infinite Subject: A Kierkegaardian Reply to Schellenberg 143

Aaron D. COBBHope and the Problem of Divine Silence 157

OTHER ARTICLES, DISCUSSIONS AND REPLIES

Robin LE POIDEVIN‘Once For All’: The Tense of the Atonement 179

C. P. RULOFFOn Propositional Platonism, Representation, and Divine Conceptualism 195

Thomas SENORCommon-Core/Diversity Dilemma, Agatheism and the Epistemology of Religious Belief 213

BOOK REVIEWS

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Authority, and Autonomy in BeliefReviewed by Roger Pouivet 227

J. A. Van Slyke, The Cognitive Science of ReligionReviewed by Hans Van Eyghen 231

Paul M. Gould, Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract ObjectsReviewed by Tyler Dalton Mcnabb 234

J. P. Moreland, Khaldoun A. Sweis, and Chad V. Meister (eds), Title of Reviewed Book or ArticleReviewed by James Arcadi 238

Michael Almeida, The Metaphysics of Perfect BeingsReviewed by Nikk Effingham 243


VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3 AUTUMN 2016

THE THEME OF THE ISSUE

DIVINE MOTIVATION VS. HUMAN AUTONOMY?

GUEST EDITORS

GODEHARD BRÜNTRUP & LUDWIG JASKOLLAMunich School of Philosophy

Editorial 1

Robert M. ADAMSHuman Autonomy and Theological Ethics 3

Maria SCHWARTZCompulsion or Attractiveness – A False Dichotomy? A Kantian Perspective on the Sources of Moral Motivation 21

Matthias LUTZ-BACHMANNFreedom: On the Concept and the Reality of Human Autonomy 35

Bruno NIEDERBACHERMetaphysical Supernaturalism and Morally Worthy Actions 59

Christian SCHRÖERSecondary-Cause Autonomy and Divine Motivation 75

Christoph HALBIG‘Can a Philosophical Justification of Ethics Be Autonomous While Acknowledging the Role of God in Grounding Moral Facts?’ 93

Linda ZAGZEBSKIDivine Motivation Theory and Exemplarism 109

OTHER ARTICLES

Travis DUMSDAYEvidentially Compelling Religious Experiences and the Moral Status of Naturalism 123

Hartmut VON SASSGod’s Being Is in Becoming: An Essay in Theological Idealism 145

Joshua RASMUSSENCould God Fail to Exist? 159

Dale TUGGYTertullian the Unitarian 179

Vladimir K. SHOKHINThe Problem of Evil and A Critique of Religious Reason 201


Charles TALIAFERRO & Christophe POROTA Defense of First and Second-Order Theism: The Limits of Empirical Inquiry and the Rationality of Religious Belief 213

S. MARK HEIMDiverse Religious Experiences and First Order Religious Beliefs 237

Graham OPPYOn Second-Order Religion, Agatheism and Naturalism 257


VOLUME 8 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2016

BOOK SYMPOSIUMThaddeus Metz’s Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study Précis of Meaning in Life 1

Alexander JECHPascal and the Voicelessness of Despair 5

Tyron GOLDSCHMIDTThe Meaning of Meaning: Comments on Metz’s Meaning in Life 19

Erik J. WIELENBERGMetz’s Case Against Supernaturalism 27

Stewart GOETZIn Defense of Supernatural Purpose Theory 35

John COTTINGHAMTheism and Meaning in Life 47

Thaddeus METZFurther Explorations of Supernaturalism about Meaning in Life:Reply to Cottingham, Goetz, Goldschmidt, Jech and Wielenberg 59

ARTICLES

Lydia McGREWFour (Or So) New Fine-Tuning Arguments 85

J. P. MORELANDA Critique of and Alternative to Nancey Murphy’s Christian Physicalism 107

Joseph JEDWABGod’s Omnipresence: A Defence of the Classical View 129

Joshua ANDERSSONAugustine’s Use of the KK-Thesis in The City Of God, Book 11 151

Edmund RUNGGALDIERDivine Eternity as Timeless Perfection 169

Paul MOYAERTCharitable Love: Bearing the Other’s Transcendence 183

Joshua MUGGIn Defense of the Belief-Plus Model of Faith 201

Ariel FURSTENBERGTradition and Conceptual Dynamics According to an Inferentialist Theory of Meaning 221


VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2016

SPECIAL ISSUE

in cooperation with the Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong

TR ADITION, RITUAL, AND HEAVEN IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY

GUEST EDITORPHILIP J. IVANHOE

ARTICLESEditorial 1

Erin M. CLINEThe Highways and Byways of Ritual: Pascal and Xunzi on Faith, Virtue, and Religious Practice 3

Richard T. KIMConfucianism and Non-human Animal Sacrifice 27

Youngsun BACKConfucian Heaven: Moral Economy and Contingency 51

Mark T. UNNOInverse Correlation: Comparative Philosophy in an Upside Down World 79

Aaron STALNAKERIn Defense of Ritual Propriety 117

Joseph ADLERChance and Necessity in Zhu Xi’s Conceptions of Heaven and Tradition 143

Ronnie LITTLEJOHNFor Heaven’s Sake: Tian in Daoist Religious Thought 163

Brad COKELETConfucianism, Buddhism, and Virtue Ethics 187

Philip J. IVANHOEJeong Dasan’s Interpretation of Mengzi: Heaven, Way, Human Nature, and the Human Heart-mind 215


Anna ABRAM‘The Maxim of the Moon’ and the Lived Experience of Religious Belief: An Ethical Revision of Thornhill-Miller’s and Millican’s Second Order Religion 239


Robert Audi, Rationality and Religious Commitment Reviewed by Olli-Pekka Vainio 251

Rob Lovering, God and EvidenceReviewed by Hans van Eyghen 254

Paul M. Gould, Beyond the Control of God: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract ObjectsReviewed by Tyler Dalton McNabb 256

Hugh J. McCann, Creation and the Sovereignty of GodReviewed by Luke Henderson 260

Corey L. Barnes, Christ’s Two Wills in Scholastic Thought: The Christology of Aquinas and Its Historical Contexts Reviewed by Stefan Lindholm 266



SPECIAL ISSUE

SPECIAL DIVINE ACTION

GUEST EDITORSANDREW PINSENT & TIMOTHY MCGREW

ARTICLES

Editorial 1

Alister E. MCGRATHHesitations About Special Divine Action: Reflections on Some Scientific, Cultural and Theological Concerns 3

Benedikt Paul GÖCKEThe Many Problems of Special Divine Action 23

Daniel von WACHTERMiracles Are Not Violations of the Laws of Nature Because the Laws Do Not Entail Regularities 37

Robert LARMERSpecial Divine Acts: Three Pseudo-Problems and a Blind Alley 61

Joel ARCHERAgainst Miracles as Law-Violations: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach 83

Ignacio SILVAA Cause Among Causes? God Acting in the Natural World 99

Andrea SANGIACOMODivine Action and God’s Immutability: A Historical Case Study On How To Resist Occasionalism 115

Lenn E. GOODMANTo Make a Rainbow – God’s Work in Nature 137

Colin MCGINNThe Mind of God 157

Andrew PINSENTSpecial Divine Insight: Escaping the Snow Queen’s Palace 173


Janusz SALAMONAtheism and Agatheism in the Global Ethical Discourse: Reply to Millican and Thornhill-Miller 197


Robert McKim, On Religious DiversityReviewd by Amir Dastmalchian 247

Mikel Burley, Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. PhillipsReviewed by Ieuan Lloyd 249

Linda Zagzebski, Omnisubjectivity: A Defense of a Divine AttributeReviewed by Chad McIntosh 254

Evan Fales, Divine Intervention: Metaphysical and Epistemological PuzzlesReviewed by Bradley Monton 259

István Aranyosi, God, Mind, and Logical Space: A Revisionary Approach to Divinity. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of ReligionReviewed by Benedikt Paul Göcke 264

Paolo Diego Bubbio & Philip Andrew Quadrio (eds), The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion TodayReviewed by Mark Manolopoulos 269



SPECIAL ISSUE

DIVINE ACTION IN THE WORLD

Guest Editor: GEORG GASSERCo-Editors: JOHANNES GROESSL, LUKAS KRAUS

ARTICLESEditorial 1

Charles TALIAFERRODivine and Human Agency from the Standpoint of Historicalism, Scientism, and Phenomenological Realism 3

Adonis VIDUOpera Trinitatis Ad Extra and Collective Agency 27

Paul HELMHow Are We Are To Think of God’s Freedom? 49

Helen STEWARDAgency Incompatibilism and Divine Agency 67

Thomas SCHÄRTLDivine Activity 79

Robert K. GARCIATropes as Divine Acts: The Nature of Creaturely Properties in a World Sustained by God 105

Thomas TRACYSpecial Divine Action and Natural Science 131

Lydia JAEGERChance in a Created World: How to Avoid Common Misunderstandings about Divine Action 151

Ingolf U. DALFERTH“... in God only one infinite act can be thought ...”: The Ambiguity of Divine Agency and the Diversity of Evil 167

Klaus von STOSCHGod’s Action in History 187

Gregory A. BOYDThe Open Future, Free Will and Divine Assurance: Responding to Three Common Objections to the Open View 207

Kevin TIMPECooperative Grace, Cooperative Agency 223

Georg GASSER, Josef QUITTERERThe Power of God and Miracles 247


Jerome GELLMANOn an Alleged Proof of Atheism: Reply to John Park 267



SPECIAL ISSUE

PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM

dedicated to Richard Swinburne in appreciation of his contributionto the development of the philosophy of religion in Russia

ARTICLESEditorial 1

Metropolitan HILARION of VolokolamskMystical Theology of St Simeon New Theologian 3

William WAINWRIGHTThe Affective Dionysian Tradition in Medieval Northern Europe 21

Michael STOEBERExploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory 35

Ryan HORNBECK & Robert SEARSMysticism and Mind: Using Cognitive Science to Explore Religious Experience 59

Alexey FOKINAugustine’s Paradigm ‘ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora’ in the Western and Eastern Christian Mysticism 81

Stephen GRIMMThe Logic of Mysticism 109

Kirill KARPOVLectio divina, meditatio, imitatio as Basic Categories of Medieval Spirituality 125

David BRADSHAWThe Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience 137

Vladimir SHOKHINEvalutions of the Mystical Conception of Religion in the Russian Academic Theology of the Nineteenth Century and Today’s Challenges 153

Tatiana MALEVICHStudies in Mysticism and Mystical Experience in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia 177

Petr MIKHAYLOVSpirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century 193


VOLUME 7 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2015

SPECIAL ISSUE

EPISTEMOLO GY OF ATHEISM

GUEST EDITORSROGER POUIVET & DARIUSZ ŁUKASIEWICZ

ARTICLES

Branden THORNHILL-MILLER & Peter MILLICANThe Common-Core/Diversity Dilemma: Revisions of Humean Thought, New Empirical Research, and the Limits of Rational Religious Belief 1

J. L. SCHELLENBERGThe Epistemology of Modest Atheism 51

Cyrille MICHONIs Atheism (the Fact) Good Evidence for Atheism (the Thesis)? On John Schellenberg’s Argument from Ignorance 71

Jacek WOJTYSIAKIs an Atheist Unjust? Theism vs. Atheism Debate in the Light of Moral and Epistemic Imperatives 89

Roger POUIVETAtheists and Believers: Worst Friends or Best Enemies? 105

John PARKThe Moral Epistemological Argument for Atheism 121

Ireneusz ZIEMIŃSKIThe Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Scepticism 143

Paul CLAVIERAtheists’ Challenges to Cosmological Arguments 165

Sébastien RÉHAULTCan Atheism Be Epistemically Responsible When So Many People Believe in God? 181

Dariusz ŁUKASIEWICZArgument from Chance 199

Scott F. AIKIN & Nicholaos JONESAn Atheistic Argument from Ugliness 209

Yann SCHMITTAn Epistemological Problem for Resurrection 219



ARTICLES

C.A.J. COADYCommunal and Institutional Trust: Authority in Religion and Politics 1

John COTTINGHAMAuthority and Trust: Reflections on Linda Zagzebski’s Epistemic Authority 25

Duncan PRITCHARD & Shane RYANZagzebski on Rationality 39

Trent DOUGHERTYZagzebski, Authority, and Faith 47

Arnon KERENZagzebski on Authority and Preemption in the Domain of Belief 61

Jacek WOJTYSIAKZagzebski on Models of Revelation 77

Charity ANDERSONEpistemic Authority and Conscientious Belief 91

Benjamin MCMYLEREpistemic Authority, Preemption, and Normative Power 101

John SCHWENKLERTradition as Transmission: A Partial Defense 121

Matthew A. BENTONBelieving on Authority 133

Damian LESZCZYŃSKIInconsistency, Uncertainty and Epistemic Authority 145

Joshue OROZCO & Nathan L. KINGConscientious Self-reflection to the Rescue? 155

Linda ZAGZEBSKIEpistemic Authority and Its Critics 169


Paolo Diego Bubbio & Philip Andrew Quadrio (eds). The Relationship of Philosophy to Religion TodayReviewed by Mark Manolopoulos 189

Justin Barrett. Born Believers: The Science of Children’s Religious BeliefReviewed by Aku Visala 193

Charles Taliaferro, Dialogues about GodReviewed by Ulrich Schmidt 199

Fraser Watts (ed.). Creation: Law and ProbabilityReviewed by Graham Wood 205



BOOK SYMPOSIUMBrian Leftow’s God and Necessity

Brian LEFTOWPrécis of God and Necessity 1

Graham OPPYLeftow on God and Necessity 5

Einar Duenger BOHNDivine Contingency 17

Peter FORRESTNot Enough Powers 25

Brian LEFTOWReplies to Oppy, Bohn and Forrest 39

ARTICLES

Robert C. ROBERTSCosmic Gratitude 65

Birgit RECKIKant on Religious Feeling – An Extrapolation 85

Roderich BARTHThe Rationality of Humility 101

Sabine DÖRINGWhat May I Hope? Why It Can Be Rational to Rely on One’s Hope 117

Ruth Rebecca TIETJENThe Feeling of Religious Longing and Passionate Rationality 131

Eva-Maria DÜRINGERIntentional Emotions and Knowledge about God 153

Eva WEBER-GUSKARConsolation – An Unrecognized Emotion 171

Petri JÄRVELÄINENEmotions, Music, and Logos 193

Katja THÖRNERTwo Arguments Against Some Critics of Religion Based on Feeling and Emotion Following William James 207



BOOK SYMPOSIUMRichard Swinburne’s Mind, Brain, and Free Will

Richard SWINBURNEPrécis of Mind, Brain, and Free Will 1

Lynne RUDDER BAKERSwinburne on Substance Dualism 5

William JAWORSKISwinburne on Substances, Properties, and Structures 17

James K. DEW, Jr.Swinburne’s New Soul: A Response to Mind, Brain, and Free Will 29

David P. HUNTSwinburne on the Conditions for Free Will and Moral Responsibility 39

Richard SWINBURNEResponse to Reviewers 51

ARTICLES

Alexander R. PRUSSNested Modes, ‘Qua’ and the Incarnation 65

T. J. MAWSONSafety and Knowledge of God 81

Ebrahim AZADEGANDivine Love and the Argument from Divine Hiddenness 101

Ross PARKERA Critical Evaluation of Rea’s Response to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness 117

Paul THOMInherence and Denomination in the Trinity 139

Jane DURANHildegard of Bingen: A Feminist Ontology 155

Jason MEGILLHume, Causation and Two Arguments Concerning God 169

Michael R. SLATERKant’s Neglected Objection to the Ontological Argument 179

Imran AIJAZTraditional Islamic Exclusivism – A Critique 185


Volume 6 Number 1 SPrING 2014

SPECIAL ISSUE

PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THEOLO GICAL REALISM

GUESt EdItORSTHOMAS M. SCHMIDT

Goethe-University Frankfurt&

OLIVER WIERTZGraduate School of Philosophy and Theology St. Georgen, Frankfurt

ARTICLESEditorial 1

Karin JoHANNeSSoNNon-Metaphysical Realism: A Dummett-Inspired Implementation of Putnam’s Internal Realism 3

magnus SCHleTTeBetween Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God 19

Sami PIHlSTrÖmPragmatist Perspectives on Theological and Religious Realism 37

Hans-Peter GroSSHANSInternal Realism and the Reality of God 61

Sebastian GÄbMetaphor and Theological Realism 79

Genia SCHÖNbAumSFelDWittgenstein and the ‘Factorization Model’ of Religious Belief 93

Peter JoNKerSLiving as if God Exists: Looking for a Common Ground in Times of Radical Pluralism 111

Thomas SCHÄrTlConstructing a Religious Worldview: Why Religious Antirealism Is Still Interesting 133

Philip J. roSSIBuilding Bridges and Crossing Boundaries: Philosophy, Theology, and the Interruptions of Transcendence 161

Gregor NICKel & Dieter SCHÖNeCKerRichards Swinburne’s Concept of Religious Experience. An Analysis and Critique 177


mark murphy, God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality reviewed by erik J. Wielenberg 199

Charles Taliaferro, Jil evans, The Image in Mind: Theism, Naturalism, and the Imaginationreviewed by James D. madden 203

David o’Connor, God, Evil, and Design: An Introduction to the Philosophical Issues reviewed by logan Paul Gage 209

Jerry l. Walls, Purgatory: The Logic of Total Transformationreviewed by Joshua Farris 215


Volume 5 Number 4 WINTer 2013

SPECIAL ISSUE

THE SEC OND-PERSONAL IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

GUESt EdItORS

ANDREW PINSENT & ELEONORE STUMPUniversity of Oxford St Louis University

ARTICLES

Editorial 1

Timothy CHAPPellKnowledge of Persons 3

eleonore STumPOmnipresence, Indwelling, and the Second-Personal 29

Stina bÄCKSTrÖmSeeing People and Knowing You: Perception, Shared Knowledge, and Acknowledgment 55

Joshua JoHNSoNThe Private Language Argument and a Second-Person Approach to Mindreading 75

Andrew PINSeNTThe Non-Aristotelian Virtue of Truth from the Second-Person Perspective 87

eva buDDeberGMorality, the Other and Third Persons 105

Susan Grove eASTmANThe Shadow Side of Second-Person Engagement: Sin in Paul’s Letter to the Romans 125

Andrea HollINGSWorTHThe Second-Person Perspective in the Preface of Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘De Visione Dei’ 145

Johan De SmeDT and Helen De CruZDelighting in Natural Beauty: Joint Attention and the Phenomenology of Nature Aesthetics 167

Donald buNGumJoint Attention, Union with God, and the Dark Night of the Soul 187


Volume 5 Number 3 AuTumN 2013

BOOK SYMPOSIUMAlvin Plantinga’s Where The Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism

Alvin PlANTINGAPrécis to Where the Conflict really lies 1

michael berGmANNIs Plantinga a Friend of Evolutionary Science? 3

Hans HAlVorSoNPlantinga on Providence and Physics 19

rené van WouDeNberGChance, Design, Defeat 31

bradley moNToNAn Atheistic Defence of Christian Science 43

Alvin PlANTINGAResponse 55

ARTICLES

Ciro De FlorIo & Aldo FrIGerIoGod, Evil, and Alvin Plantinga on the Free-Will Defense 75

Paolo GomArASCAThe Job’s Dilemma: Fiat justitia, ruat caelum 95

Joanna VAN Der VeeN & leon HorSTeNCantorian Infinity and Philosophical Concepts of God 117

Francis JoNbÄCKGeneric Theistic Reliabilism 139

brian rIbeIroThe Theistic Argument from Beauty: A Philonian Critique 149

brian ZAmulINSKIThe Cliffordian Virtue 159


Kelly James Clark and raymond VanArragon (eds.), Evidence and Religious Belief reviewed by Ted Poston 177

randal rauser, Theology in Search of Foundationreviewed by Aku Visala 183

Vincent brümmer, What Are We Doing When We Pray?: On Prayer and the Nature of Faithreviewed by Scott Davison 191

Jesse bering, The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Lifereviewed by Joshua C. Thurow 196

John r. betz, Enlightenment: The Post-Secular Vision of J. G. Hamannreviewed by Thorsten botz-bornstein 202


Volume 5 Number 2 summer 2013

ARTICLES

Jonathan JACobsAcquiring Universal Values Through a Particular Tradition: A Perspective on Judaism and Modern Pluralism 1

Hajj muhammad leGeNHAuseNResponding to the Religious Reasons of Others: Resonance and Nonreductive Religious Pluralism 23

Paul K. moserGod and Evidence: A Cooperative Approach 47

Katherine DormANDYReligious Evidentialism 63

Herman PHIlIPseThe Real Conflict Between Science and Religion: Alvin Plantinga’s Ignoratio Elenchi 87

Winfried lÖFFlerTwo Kinds of ‘Christian Philosophy’ 111

benedikt Paul GÖCKeAn Analytic Theologian’s Stance on the Existence of God 129

moti mIZrAHINew Puzzles about Divine Attributes 147


Kate KIrKPATrICKJean-Paul Sartre: Mystical Atheist or Mystical Antipathist? 159


Alvin Plantinga & michael Tooley, Knowledge of Godreviewed by Ian m. Church 169

robert A. Hinde, Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religionreviewed by Ian James Kidd 172

Aku Visala, Naturalism, Theism and the Cognitive Study of Religion: Religion Explained?reviewed by Helen De Cruz 175

robert K. Garcia & Nathan l. King (ed.), Is Goodness without God Good Enough? A Debate on Faith, Secularism, and Ethicsreviewed by Dieter schönecker 183

Anna marmodoro & Jonathan Hill (eds.), The Metaphysics of the Incarnationreviewed by David efird 185



SPE C IA L I S SU EMinds: Human and Divine

GODEHARD BRÜNTRUP SJ Guest Editor

ARTICLES

David P. HuNTGod’s Extended Mind 1

Daniel o’brIeNGod’s Knowledge of Other Minds 17

Christina SCHNeIDerAgent-Causation and Paradigms for God’s Knowledge 35

Anna IJJASA-Time Beats No Time: A Response to Brian Leftow 55

Christoph JÄGerMolinism and Theological Compatibilism 71

Godehard brÜNTruP & ruben SCHNeIDerComplete Concept Molinism 93

Andrew PINSeNTCosmic Purpose and the Question of a Personal God 109

uwe meIXNerFirst Causes: Divine and Human 125

Stewart GoeTZPurposeful Explanation and Causal Gaps 141

Thomas SCHÄrTlThe Argument from Consciousness and Divine Consciousness 157

Howard robINSoNA “Trinitarian” Theory of the Self 181

William JAWorSKIHylomorphism and the Resurrection 197


Volume 4 Number 4 WINTer 2012

ARTICLES

David S. oDerberGSurvivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology 1

Dale JACQueTTeAnselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing 27

erik J. WIeleNberGAn Inconsistency in Craig’s Defence of the Moral Argument 49

Andrei A. buCKAreFFOmniscience, the Incarnation, and Knowledge de se 59

T. ryan bYerlYInfallible Divine Foreknowledge Cannot Uniquely Threaten Human Freedom, But Its Mechanics Might 73

T. J. mAWSoNOn Determining How Important It Is Whether or Not There Is a God 95

Jerome GellmANA Theistic, Universe-Based, Theodicy of Human Suffering and Immoral Behaviour 107

Anders KrAAlHedenius’ Soteriological Argument from Evil 123

Peter JoNKerSRedefining Religious Truth as a Challenge for Philosophy of Religion 139

louis CAruANAScience, Religion and Common Sense 161


John bISHoPIn Quest of Authentic Divinity: Critical Notice of Mark Johnston’s‘Saving God: religion after Idolatry’ 175


Timothy o’Connor. Theism and Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingencyreviewed by Sho Yamaguchi 193

Georg Gasser (ed.). Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?reviewed by Joshua Farris 196

Timothy Yoder. Hume on God: Irony, Deism and Genuine Theismreviewed by Dan o’brien 201

earl Stanley b. Fronda. Wittgenstein’s (Misunderstood) Religious Thoughtreviewed by Klaus von Stosch 206

Neil Spurway (ed.). Theology, Evolution and the Mindreviewed by Aku Visala 208


Volume 4 Number 3 AuTumN 2012

ARTICLES

David e. CooPerLiving with Mystery: Virtue, Truth, and Practice 1

John CoTTINGHAmReligion and the Mystery of Existence 15

michael mcGHeeBirds, Frogs and Tintern Abbey: Humanism and Hubris 33

Ian James KIDDReceptivity to Mystery: Cultivation, Loss, and Scientism 51

Graham PArKeSAwe and Humility in the Face of Things: Somatic Practice in East-Asian Philosophies 69

mark WYNNMystery, Humility and Religious Practice in the Thought of St John of the Cross 89

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

John martin FISCHerStruggling With Evil: Comments on Wandering in Darkness 109

David mcNAuGHToNFrom Darkness into Light? Reflections on Wandering in Darkness 123

Georg GASSerWorldviews, the Problem of Evil, and Rational Discourse: Thoughts on the Framework of Stump’s Defence 137

Christian J. FelDbACHerKnowledge by Narratives: On the Methodology of Stump’s Defence 155

Adam GreeNTransparency and the Desires of the Heart: A Constructive Critique of Stump’s Theodicy 167

lukas benedikt KrAuSOn the Desires of the Heart in Stump’s Theodicy 185

eleonore STumPWandering in Darkness: Further Reflections 197


John Hick, Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason reviewed by Anastasia Scrutton 221

Paul K. moser, The Elusive God: Reorienting Religious Epistemology reviewed by michael Thune 227

Kerry Walters, Atheism: A Guide for the Perplexed. michael bergmann, michael murray and michael rea (eds.), Divine Evil: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham. reviewed by olli-Pekka Vainio 233

Vladimir K. Shokhin, Philosophy of Religion and Its Historical Forms reviewed by Fedor Stanzhevskiy 239

Joel buenting (ed.) The Problem of Hell: A Philosophical Anthology reviewed by C. P. ragland 245

OBITUARY

John Hick: remembering and mourning (Stephen T. Davis) 251


Volume 4 Number 2 summer 2012

SPE C IA L I S SU EOntological Proofs Today

DARIUSZ ŁUKASIEWICZGuest Editor

ARTICLES

richard sWINburNeWhat Kind of Necessary Being Could God Be? 1

William J. WAINWrIGHTAssessing Ontological Arguments 19

Howard robINsoNVarieties of Ontological Argument 41

Graham oPPYPruss, Motivational Centrality, and Probabilities Attached to Possibility Premises in Modal Ontological Arguments 65

Yujin NAGAsAWAIs There a Shallow Logical Refutation of the Ontological Argument? 87

Jan WoleŃsKIWas Gaunilo Right in His Criticism of Anselm? A Contemporary Perspective 101

Daniel CHlAsTAWAModified Gaunilo-Type Objections Against Modal Ontological Arguments 113

marcin TKACZYKRatio Anselmi Revisited 127

sergio GAlVANTwo Types of Ontological Frame and Gödel's Ontological Proof 147

uwe meIXNerA Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause – Perhaps God 169

Andrzej bIŁATModal Logic vs. Ontological Argument 179

stanisław JuDYCKIDescartes’ Ontological Proof: An Interpretation and Defense 187



ARTICLES

eleonore STumPAtonement and the Cry of Dereliction from the Cross 1

Irit SAmeTOn Pain and the Privation Theory of Evil 19

Christopher HuGHeSOpenness, Privilege, and Omniscience 35

Daniel murPHYMolinism, Creature-Types, and the Nature of Counterfactual Implication 65

Stephen r. l. ClArKFolly to the Greeks: Good Reasons to Give Up Reason 87

T. ryan bYerlYFaith as an Epistemic Disposition 109

Paul reDDINGSome Metaphysical Implications of Hegel’s Theology 129

Sebastian reHNmANA Reformed Natural Theology? 151

Jeremy KooNSCan God’s Goodness Save the Divine Command Theory from Euthyphro? 177

Timothy PAWlTraditional Christian Theism and Truthmaker Maximalism 197

Gregory J. robSoNReconsidering the Necessary Beings of Aquinas’s Third Way 219


J. P. morelANDGod and the Argument from Consciousness: A Response to Lim 243


Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro, A Brief History of the Soulreviewed by Joshua Farris 253

Tim mawson, Will: A Guide for the Perplexedreviewed by benjamin matheson 259

olli-Pekka Vainio, Beyond Fideism: Negotiable Religious Identitiesreviewed by Aku Visala 263

Denis moreau, Les voies du salut: un essai philosophique [The Ways of Salvation: A Philosophical essay]reviewed by Jean-baptiste Guillon 269

Heinrich Heine, On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings, edited by T. Pinkard reviewed by Veronika Wegener 274


Volume 3 Number 2 AutumN 2011

ARTICLES

Peter bYrNeReidianism in Contemporary English-Speaking Religious Epistemology 267

linda ZAGZebSKIFirst Person and Third Person Reasons and Religious Epistemology 285

Paul ClAVIerHans Jonas’ Feeble Theodicy: How on Earth Could God Retire? 305

N. VerbINWittgenstein and Maimonides on God and the Limits of Language 323

Daniel von WACHterDo the Results of Divine Actions Have Preceding Causes? 347

Paul o’GrADYAquinas and Naturalism 369

Denis moreAuClarifying the Concept of Salvation 387

bruce lANGtrYSwinburne on the Simplicity of Theism 409

roger PouIVetAgainst Theological Fictionalism 427


Daniel lImZombies, Epiphenomenalism, and Personal Explanations: A Tension in Moreland’s Argument from Consciousness 439

Peter DrumOn the Resurrection of the Body: Discussion with Trenton Merricks 451


eleonore Stump, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Sufferingreviewed by Charles taliaferro and Paul reasoner 455

Stewart Goetz, Freedom, Teleology, and Evilreviewed by Kevin timpe 460

Andrew Schumann (ed.), Logic in Religious Discoursereviewed by einar Duenger bohn 466

rolfe King, Obstacles to Divine Revelationreviewed by tony bolos 470

robert erlewine, Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reasonreviewed by Christian Hengstermann 474


Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 2011

ARTICLES

Roger POUIVETOn the Polish Roots of the Analytic Philosophy of Religion 1

William J. WAINWRIGHTTh e Spiritual Senses in Western Spirituality and the Analytic Philosophy of Religion 21

Jerome GELLMANI Called to God from a Narrow Place . . . A Wide Future for Philosophy of Religion 43

Kelly James CLARK & Dani RABINOWITZKnowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science 67

William HASKERMaterialism and the Resurrection: Are the Prospects Improving? 83

Peter FORRESTIn Defence of Anthropomorphic Th eism 105

Timothy CHAPPELLTh eism in Historical Perspective 123

T. J. MAWSONTh eodical Individualism 139

Gregor DAMSCHENQuestioning Gödel’s Ontological Proof: Is Truth Positive? 161

Th ord SVENSSON“Soft Contextualism” in the Context of Religious Language 171


Graham OPPYCritical Notice of J. P. Moreland’s Consciousness and the Existence of God 193

J. P. MORELANDOppy on the Argument from Consciousness: A Rejoinder 213

Scott A. DAVISONOn the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer. Response to Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder 227


John Haldane, Reasonable FaithReviewed by Trent Dougherty 239

Paul Weingartner, God’s Existence. Can it be Proven?: A Logical Commentary on the Five Ways of Th omas AquinasReviewed by Tim Pawl 243

Kevin Timpe (ed), Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore StumpReviewed by Travis Dumsday 249

Bradley Monton, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist DefendsIntelligent DesignReviewed by Toby Betenson 254

Godehard Brüntrup, Matthias Rugel, and Maria Schwartz (eds.), Auferstehung des Leibes – Unsterblichkeit der Seele [Resurrection of the Body – Immoratily of the Soul]Reviewed by Th omas Marschler 260


Volume 2 Number 2 Autumn 2010

ARTICLES

Paul K. MOSERAgapeic Th eism: Personifying Evidence and Moral Struggle 1

Timothy J. MAWSONSources of Dissatisfaction with Answers to the Question of the Meaning of Life 19

Daniel and Frances HOWARD-SNYDERTh e Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer 43

Timothy O’CONNOR and Jonathan D. JACOBSEmergent Individuals and the Resurrection 69

Stig Børsen HANSENUnrestricted Quantifi cation and Natural Th eology: Is “the World” on the Index? 89

Francis X. CLOONEYReconnecting the Philosophy of Religion and Engaged Religious Reasoning 111

Bernd IRLENBORNReligious Diversity: A Philosophical Defense of Religious Inclusivism 127

Janusz SALAMONLight Out of Plenitude: Towards Epistemology of Mystical Inclusivism 141

Vladimir K. SHOKHINPhilosophical Th eology and Indian Versions of Th eodicy 177

Brian ZAMULINSKIGod, Evil, and Evolution 201


Philosophy of Religion. An Almanac. Volumes I & II. Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2007 & 2010Reviewed by Fedor Stanzhevskiy 219



ARTICLES

Richard SWINBURNE

God as the Simplest Explanation of the Universe 1

John HICK

God and Christianity according to Swinburne 25

Timothy CHAPPELL

Euthyphro’s “Dilemma”, Socrates’ Daimonion, and Plato’s God 39

Linda ZAGZEBSKI

Th e Rule of St. Benedict and Modern Liberal Authority 65

Louis CARUANA

Is Religion Undermined by Evolutionary Arguments? 85

Graham OPPY

Epistemological Foundations for Koons’ Cosmological Argument? 107

Evan SANDSMARK & Jason L. MEGILL

Cosmological Argument: A Pragmatic Defense 127

Michael TOOLEY

Time, Truth, Actuality, and Causation: On the Impossibility

of Divine Foreknowledge 143

MICHAEL ROTA

Th e Eternity Solution to the Problem of Human Freedom

and Divine Foreknowledge 165


Jerome GELLMAN

On God, Suff ering, and Th eodical Individualism 187

Stephen MAITZEN

On Gellman’s Attempted Rescue 193

Jacek WOJTYSIAK

Morality, God, and Possible Worlds 199


Volker Dieringer, Kant’s Solution to the Problem of Th eodicy.

A Reconstruction

Reviewed by Christian Hengstermann 209

Christian Kummer, Th e Case of Darwin. Th eory of Evolution

versus Belief in Creation

Reviewed by Jasmin Hassel 215

James Beilby. Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Plantinga´s

Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

Reviewed by Oliver Wiertz

EuropEan Journalfor philosophy of rEligion

Volume 1 Number 2 Autumn 2009

articlEs

Peter van INWAGEN Indeterminacy and Vagueness: Logic and Metaphysics 1

Mikael STENMARKReligious Pluralism and the Some-Are-Equally-Right View 21

Michael SUDDUTHRevisiting the ‘Reformed Objection’ to Natural Theology 37

Fiona ELLISMurdoch and Levinas on God and Good 63

Chris DALYMoral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil 89

Stephen MAITZENOrdinary Morality Implies Atheism 107

Jerome GELLMANJean Paul Sartre: the Mystical Atheist 127

BooK rEViEWs anD noticEs

Hilary Putnam, Jewish Life As a Guide to LifeReviewed by Yiftach Fehige 139

Dirk Evers, Gott und mögliche Welten. Studien zur Logik theologischer Aussagen über das Mögliche [God and Possible Worlds. Studies in the Logic of Theological Discourse on Possibility]Reviewed by Thomas Schärtl 144

Winfried Löffler, Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie [Introduction to Philosophy of Religion]Reviewed by Peter Schneider 150

EuropEan Journalfor philosophy of rEligionJournal of the Central European Society for Philosophy of Religion


Richard SwiNbuRNEEditorial

articlEs

Jonathan L. KVANViG Religious Pluralism and the Buridan’s Ass Paradox 1

Paul REASONER & Charles TALiAFERROThe Double-Movement Model of Forgiveness in Buddhist and Christian Rituals 27

william E. MANNThe Guilty Mind 41

R. william HASKERBeauty and Metaphysics 65

Paul HELMEternity and Vision in Boethius 77

balazs MEZEiTwo Models of Radical Revelation in Austrian Philosophy 99

Thomas SCHÄRTLThe Challenge of Theodicy and the Divine Access to the Universe 121

BooK rEViEWs anD noticEs

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion; Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism; Louise M. Antony (ed.), Philosophers without Gods, Meditations on Atheism and the Secular LifeReviewed by Raymond Aaron Younis 157

Daniel A. Dombrowski, A Platonic Philosophy of Religion: A Process Perspective; Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic ResponseReviewed by Yujin Nagasawa 177

Fulvio Di blasi, Joshua P. Hochschild, Jeffrey Langan (eds), Virtue’s End: God in the Moral Philosophy of Aristotle and AquinasReviewed by Russell E. Jones 182

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