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    Self-Defense for Theists.Blake Hereth - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:246-276.
    According to Theistic Defensive Incompatibilism, common theistic commitments limit the scope or explanation of permissible self-defense. In this essay, I offer six original arguments for Theistic Defensive Incompatibilism. The first four arguments concern narrow proportionality: the requirement that the defensive harm inflicted on unjust threateners not exceed the harm they threaten. Hellism, Annihilationism, and Danteanism each imply that narrow proportionality is rarely satisfied, whereas Universalism implies that killing never harms. The final two arguments concern wide proportionality, or the requirement that (...)
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  2. Descartes on Necessity and the Laws of Nature.Nathan Rockwood - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:277-292.
    This paper is on Descartes’ account of modality and, in particular, his account of the necessity of the laws of nature. He famously argues that the necessity of the “eternal truths” of logic and mathematics depends on God’s will. Here I suggest he has the same view about the necessity of the laws of nature. Further, I argue, this is a plausible theory of laws. For philosophers often talk about something being nomologically or physically necessary because of the laws of (...)
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    A Dilemma for De Dicto Halakhic Motivation: Why Mitzvot Don’t Require Intention.Itamar Weinshtock Saadon - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:76-97.
    According to a prominent view in Jewish-Halakhic literature, “mitzvot (commandments) require intention.” That is, to fulfill one’s obligation in performing a commandment, one must intend to perform the act because it’s a mitzvah; one must take the fact that one’s act is a mitzvah as her reason for doing the action. I argue that thus understood, this Halakhic view faces a revised version of Thomas Hurka’s recent dilemma for structurally similar views in ethics: either it makes it a necessary condition (...)
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  4. Transubstantiation: A Metaphysical Proposal.Joshua Sijuwade - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:309-331.
    This article aims to provide an intelligible explication of the doctrine of Transubstantiation. A model of this doctrine is formulated within the formal, neo-Aristotelian metaphysical and ontological framework of Jonathan Lowe, termed Serious Essentialism and the Four-Category Ontology. Formulating the doctrine of Transubstantiation within this metaphysical and ontological framework will enable it to be explicated in a clear and consistent manner, and the oft-raised intelligibility question against it can be answered.
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  5. William Lane Craig. In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration[REVIEW]Daniel Spencer - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:700-705.
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    The Claim of Holiness.Cole S. Aronson - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:1-20.
    I argue that God’s holiness as conceived in Hebrew Scripture grounds human obligations to obey divine commands. To disobey the commands of a holy God would disrespect a basic good, which we have decisive reason to avoid doing. God’s holiness may be a somewhat obscure property––though I propose transcendence and perfect morality as necessary conditions––but His omniscience and perfect morality guarantee that He would not command human beings to do things that His holiness would not ground His authority to command. (...)
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    William Wood. Analytic Theology and the Academic Study of Religion.David Decosimo - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:750-760.
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    The One vs. The Many.D. T. Everhart - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:293-308.
    This paper looks at a recent exchange concerning the human nature of Christ and the Christological anthropology of Thomas F. Torrance. In this exchange, Oliver Crisp and Christopher Woznicki offer competing readings of Torrance’s Christological anthropology. Crisp argues for a concretist understanding of Christ’s human nature while Woznicki offers an abstractist metaphysic. This paper will look at this exchange in conversation with Torrance’s work and recent work in group ontology, offering a third way forward between the impasse of Crisp’s concretism (...)
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    Interpreting Conciliar Christology.Donald Fairbairn - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:363-381.
    Given the interest in analytic theology circles about following “conciliar Christology,” this article describes three different patterns by which patristics scholars have interpreted the relations between the Ecumenical Councils in the past 150 years, patterns that I label as “pendulum swing,” “synthesis of emphases,” and “Cyrillian/traditional.” The article argues that whereas much analytic theology work on Christology belongs in the “synthesis of emphases” pattern, the ascendant paradigm in patristics scholarship is Cyrillian/traditional. It makes a case that the councils understood themselves (...)
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    Joanna Leidenhag. Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation.Benedikt Paul Göcke - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:745-749.
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    What’s So Bad about Worshipping Other Gods?Tyron Goldschmidt - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:39-53.
    Many religious traditions teach that we should worship God, and philosophers have explored the requirement to worship God, and what might make God worthy of worship. These religious traditions also prohibit worshipping other gods. This essay explores, from a Jewish perspective, what it might mean to worship other gods, what the rationale behind the prohibition might be, and why the prohibition might be so grave.
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    Jeffrey Koperski. Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature.Paul M. Gould - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:718-722.
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    What is the Best Jewish Account of the Grounds of Worship of God?Michael J. Harris - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:21-38.
    This paper brings contemporary debate in analytic philosophy of religion regarding the notion of worship into conversation with Jewish sources and attempts to identify the most promising philosophical grounds for a Jewish account of the putative obligatoriness of worship. Some philosophers have recently debated the notion of worship, focusing in particular on the claim that human beings have an obligation to worship God and on whether and how such an obligation might be adequately grounded. I first canvass the major bases (...)
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    Thomas H. McCall. Analytic Christology and the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament.Andrew Hollingsworth - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:735-738.
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  15. Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, eds. Voices from the Edge: Centering Marginalized Perspectives in Analytic Theology.Erin Kidd - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:714-717.
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    Introduction to Special Issue on Jewish Analytic Theology.Samuel Lebens & Aaron Segal - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10.
    It is our pleasure to introduce this special issue, devoted to the topic of worship in Jewish analytic theology. Many of the papers published here were presented at one of two summer workshops we ran as part of the John Templeton Foundation sponsored project, “Worship: A Jewish Philosophical Investigation”.
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    Toward an African Theory of the Atonement.Kirk Lougheed - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:200-209.
    Contemporary philosophy of religion and analytic theology has recently experienced a revival regarding the nature of the Christian Atonement. The Kaleidoscope theory of the atonement says that the major theories such as Christus Victor, Satisfaction, Penal Substitution, and Moral Exemplar each capture an important aspect of the significance of the atonement. When taken together, they offer a fuller picture of the atonement than they do as individual theories. My goal is to add to the Kaleidoscope theory by drawing on insights (...)
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    Michael C. Rea. Essays in Analytic Theology, Volumes 1 and 2.Robert MacSwain - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:730-734.
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    Closeness with God.Ryan Mullins - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:233-245.
    Have you ever wondered what God’s inner emotional life might be like? Within Christian thought, there are conflicting answers to this question. The majority of Christian theologians throughout history have said that God cannot be moved by creatures to feel anything. God does not literally have empathy, mercy, or compassion. Instead, God only feels pure undisturbed happiness. This view is called divine impassibility. In the 20 th Century, Christian theologians by and large came to reject this understanding of God in (...)
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    Can Analytic Theology be Phenomenological?Steven Nemes - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:210-232.
    The present essay is concerned with the question of whether analytic theology can be properly phenomenological. Both analytic theology and phenomenology are defined by reference to leading practitioners of both, and responses are given to objections to both approaches. The critique of analytic theology recently proposed by Martin Westerholm is considered, as well the objections to phenomenology brought forth by Tom Sparrow. The compatibility of analytic theology and phenomenology is argued on the basis of the definitions provided. Four brief arguments (...)
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    Mark C. Murphy. Divine Holiness and Divine Action.Ross Parker - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:739-744.
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    Samuel Lebens. The Principles of Judaism.David Shatz - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:723-729.
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    Hud Hudson. Fallenness and Flourishing.James T. Turner - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:709-713.
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    For all the Blessings of this Life.Leigh Vicens - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:54-64.
    I argue, first, against the idea that Christian thanksgiving is about counting one’s blessings, or finding something specific in every circumstance which is intended by God for one’s own good. For we cannot know how God specifically intended to benefit us in most circumstances, and such knowledge is required for blessings-counting; and the New Testament models a different kind of thanksgiving which makes more sense in light of Christian theology. I also argue against the conception of Christian gratitude as a (...)
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    Good Enough to be God.Thomas M. Ward - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:65-75.
    This paper develops a view of worship according to which worship is a certain sort of _life orientation_, and argues that according to the Bible, the worship of God normatively is _non-instrumental, comprehensive, unconditional orientation of one’s life toward God_. It then develops a biblical view about how this sort of worship of God is _possible_. Finally, it argues that it is _good_ to worship God in this way only if God is an Anselmian being—_that than which nothing greater can (...)
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    Discovery of the Sixth Ecumenical Council’s Trinitarian Theology.Scott M. Williams - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:332-362.
    For decades now some Christian theologians, and some philosophers of religion, have labored at distinguishing Social Trinitarianism and non-Social Trinitarianism. Many have revised their models of the Trinity in light of counter-arguments or counter-evidence. For Christian theologians, or philosophers of religion, what counts as a good counter-argument or counter-evidence may (but need not) depend on respected theological authorities. Recently, some focus has been paid to what is called Conciliar Trinitarianism, which is the name for whatever is endorsed by, or rejected (...)
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    James M. Arcadi and James T. Turner, Jr., eds. T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology.Eric Yang - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:706-708.
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    Worship, Apophaticism, and Non-Propositional Knowledge.Eric Yang - 2022 - Journal of Analytic Theology 10:98-114.
    This paper addresses the alleged tension between the kind of strong apophaticism endorsed by Maimonides and his view of worshiping God. After considering some extant resolutions to this problem, I offer a proposal that utilizes the role of silence and imitative activity in Maimonides. While this solution may not have been one that Maimonides would have offered, I argue that Maimonides had conceptual resources for offering a promising solution within his theological framework.
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