In this paper, I offer some brief reflections on Jordan Wessling’s book, Love Divine: A Systematic Account of God’s for Humanity. explain what take to be its strengths in articulating an account divine love that solves a variety problems classical theism cannot solve. Then articulate potential problem and hell.

Skeptical theism is a family of responses to arguments from evil. One important member that Stephen Wykstra’s CORNEA-based criticism William Rowe’s A cornerstone approach his CORNEA principle. However, number authors have criticized on various grounds, including it has odd results, cannot do the work was meant to, and problematically conflicts with so-called common sense epistemology. In this p...

In what may be his best book to date, Victor Stenger (Professor Emeritus of Physics) provides a much needed summary, elaboration, and defense of the main theses of the so-called “New Atheists” (NAs), known for their widely-publicized, unrelenting, and passionate critiques of theism and religion in general. Among these NAs, Stenger includes authors of recent bestsellers in the United States: Sam...

Discussions of the problem of evil presuppose and appeal to axiological and metaethical assumptions, but seldom pay adequate attention to those assumptions. I argue that certain theories of value are consistent with theistic answers to the argument from evil and that several other well-known theories of value, such as hedonism, are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with theism. Althoug...

Every ethos implies a mythos in the sense that every systematic approach to ethics is inevitably based on some fundamental religious or religion-like story that gives answers to questions such as: Where did I come from? Where am I going? How am I to live? These narratives generally lay hidden beneath the plane of the interpersonal interactions that characterize all clinical encounters, but cari...

I examine the central atheistic argument of Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion (“Dawkins’s Gambit”) and illustrate its failure. I further show that Dawkins’s Gambit is a fragment of a more comprehensive critique of theism found in David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Among the failings of Dawkins’s Gambit is that it is directed against a version of the God Hypothesis that fe...

Epistemic permissivism is the thesis that evidence can rationally permit more than one attitude toward a proposition. Pascal’s wager idea ought to believe in God for practical reasons, because of what gain if theism true and has lose false. In this paper, I argue epistemic true, then defender powerful responses two prominent objections. First, about theistic belief. Second, show how belief disp...