This paper considers whether theism is compatible with moral error theory. issue neglected, perhaps because it widely assumed that these views are incompatible. I argue this mistaken. In so doing, articulate the best argument for thinking and theory According to it, incompatible entails God morally good, not. reject argument. Since incompatible, conclude compatible: one can coherently accept bo...

Ted Sider’s paper “Hell and Vagueness” challenges a certain conception of Hell by arguing that it is inconsistent with God’s justice. Sider’s inconsistency argument works only when supplemented by additional premises. Key to Sider’s case is a premise that the properties upon which eternal destinies supervene are “a smear,” i.e., they are distributed continuously among individuals in the world. ...

Past research has established a relationship between awe and explanatory frameworks, such as religion. We extend this work, showing (a) the effects of awe on a separate source of explanation: attitudes toward science, and (b) how the effects of awe on attitudes toward scientific explanations depend on individual differences in theism. Across 3 studies, we find consistent support that awe decrea...

Surely God, as a perfectly rational being, created the universe for some reason. But is God’s creating reason compatible with divine impassibility? That question I investigate in this article. The prima facie tension between impassibility and arises from impassibility’s commitment to God being uninfluenced by anything ad extra. If way, asks detractor, how could he be moved create at all? This h...

This article outlines the philosophical background to spiritual psychology and selectively reviews Western and Eastern literature on the subject. The world views of theism, atheism, and agnosticism are defined and critiqued, and the boundaries of scientific knowledge discussed. The views of James, Jung, and Freud are reviewed, and the contributions of humanistic psychology noted. Contemporary s...

A recent discussion of Hume's argument concerning the rationality of accepting a belief that a miracle has occurred is given by J. L. Mackie in The Miracle of Theism. Mackie believes that Hume's argument is essentially correct, although he attempts to clarify and strengthen it. Any version of Hume's argument depends upon one's conception of miracles and laws of nature; I will argue that Mackie ...