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  1. (1 other version)The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes.Edward R. Wierenga - 1989 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    The Nature of God explores a perennial problem in the philosophy of religion.
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  2. The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes.Edward R. WIERENGA - 1989 - Religious Studies 28 (4):575-576.
     
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  3. A defensible divine command theory.Edward Wierenga - 1983 - Noûs 17 (3):387-407.
  4. Omniscience.Edward Wierenga - 2008 - In Thomas P. Flint & Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Omniscience is the divine attribute of possessing complete or unlimited knowledge. This article examines motivations for taking such a property to be a divine attribute, attempts to define or analyse omniscience, possible limitations on the extent of divine knowledge, and, finally, objections either to the coherence of the concept or to its compatibility with other divine attributes or with widely accepted claims.
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  5. Theism and counterpossibles.Edward Wierenga - 1998 - Philosophical Studies 89 (1):87-103.
  6. Trinity and Polytheism.Edward Wierenga - 2004 - Faith and Philosophy 21 (3):281-294.
    This paper develops an interpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity, drawn from Augustine and the Athanasian Creed. Such a doctrine includes divinity claims (the persons are divine), diversity claims (the persons are distinct), and a uniqueness claim (there is only one God). I propose and defend an interpretation of these theses according to which they are neither logically incompatible nor do they do entail that there are three (or four) gods.
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    The Freedom of God.Edward Wierenga - 2002 - Faith and Philosophy 19 (4):425-436.
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  8. Omnipotence defined.Edward Wierenga - 1983 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 43 (3):363-375.
  9. Prophecy, freedom, and the necessity of the past.Edward Wierenga - 1991 - Philosophical Perspectives 5:425-445.
    One of the strongest arguments for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human free action appeals to the apparent fixity or necessity of the past. Two leading responses to the argument—Ockhamism, which denies a premiss of the argument, and the so-called “eternity solution”, which holds that strictly speaking God does not have foreknowledge—have both come under attack on similar grounds. Neither response, it is alleged, is adequate to the case of divine prophecy. In this paper I shall first state the (...)
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  10. Anselm on Omnipresence.Edward Wierenga - 1988 - New Scholasticism 62 (1):30-41.
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    Proxy consent and counterfactual wishes.Edward Wierenga - 1983 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 8 (4):405-416.
    I discuss conditions for the validity of proxy consent to treatment on behalf of an incompetent person. I distinguish those incompetents who, when previously competent, expressed an opinion on the treatment in question from those who were never competent or who, though previously competent, never expressed an opinion on the proposed treatment. In the former case valid proxy consent usually requires respecting the stated wishes of the patient. The latter case is more difficult. I consider a widely-held principle which appeals (...)
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    Portraying Analogy.Edward Wierenga - 1986 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (4):692-696.
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  13. Augustinian perfect being theology and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.Edward Wierenga - 2011 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 69 (2):139-151.
    All of the ingredients for what has become known as Anselmian perfect being theology were present already in the thought of St. Augustine. This paper develops that thesis by calling attention to various claims Augustine makes. It then asks whether there are principled reasons for determining which properties the greatest possible being has and whether an account of what contributes to greatness can settle the question whether the greatest possible being is the same as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and (...)
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    Perfect goodness and divine freedom.Edward Wierenga - 2007 - Philosophical Books 48 (3):207-216.
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    (1 other version)Omnipresence.Edward R. Wierenga - 1997 - In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 258–262.
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    Providence, Middle Knowledge, and the Grounding Objection.Edward Wierenga - 2001 - Philosophia Christi 3 (2):447-457.
  17. Cartesian and Neo-Cartesian Arguments for Dualism.Edward Wierenga - 2015 - In Mind and Body in Comparative Theology: Proceedings of the International Conference of Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem. pp. 213-240.
    I propose some arguments suggested by Descartes' text for the conclusion that we are not identical to our bodies. I suggest that a natural extension of those arguments leads to Plantinga's Replacement Argument. I conclude that even if such an argument is plausible, its conclusion does not establish the further claim that we can exist without a body.
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  18. The Ontological Argument and Objects of Thought.Edward Wierenga - 2011 - Philosophic Exchange 42 (1):82-103.
    Is there anything new to be said about Anselm's ontological argument? Recent work by Lynne Baker and Gareth Matthews raises some interesting and important questions about the argument. First, Anselm's argument is set in the context of a prayer to God, whose existence Anselm seeks to prove. Is that peculiar or paradoxical? Does it imply that Anselm's prayer is insincere? Baker and Matthews have offered a novel interpretation of Anselm's argument, designed to solve a crucial problem with it. Does their (...)
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    Chisholm on states of affairs.Edward Wierenga - 1976 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (2):148 – 152.
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    Intrinsic Maxima and Omnibenevolence.Edward Wierenga - 1979 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (1):41 - 50.
  21. Utilitarianism and the Divine Command Theory.Edward Wierenga - 1984 - American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (4):311 - 318.
  22. Thalberg on the Irreducibility of Events.Richard H. Feldman & Edward Wierenga - 1979 - Analysis 39 (1):11 - 16.
    Several debates in contemporary metaphysics provoke us to ask what an event is. One theory, Pioneered by chisholm, Develops the analogy between the occurrence of events and the truth of corresponding propositions. I call these propositional analyses. It is unclear whether their adherents wish to jettison our event-Concepts, And replace them with concepts from another category, Such as semantics. The other theory of what events are that I scrutinize, Namely kim's and goldman's property-Exemplification analysis, Seems reductive. My suspicion is that (...)
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    Denotation and Eliminative Materialism.Rew A. Godow & Edward R. Wierenga - 1976 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 36 (3):391 - 402.
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  24. Fodor on Davidson on action sentences.Edward Wierenga - 1980 - Synthese 44 (3):347 - 359.
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    Identity Conditions and Events.Edward Wierenga & Richard Feldman - 1981 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (1):77 - 93.
    According to Myles Brand, ‘[t]he key to advocating a particularist account of events -or any account of events - is to provide adequate identity conditions’. He thinks that the function of an identity condition is ‘to specify the nature of’ events.To state an identity condition for events is to provide a way to complete the formula: The mere fact that a proposed completion of is true does not imply that it is an informative identity condition for events or that it (...)
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  26. Mind and Body in Comparative Theology: Proceedings of the International Conference of Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem.Edward Wierenga - 2015
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    Omniscience and Knowledge De Se Et De Praesenti.Edward Wierenga - 1988 - In D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 251--258.
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    Omniscience and Time, One More Time.Edward Wierenga - 2004 - Faith and Philosophy 21 (1):90-97.
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    Reply to Harold Moore.Edward Wierenga - 1978 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (4):246.
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    The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism.Edward Wierenga - 2019 - Journal of Philosophical Theological Research 21 (3):27-42.
    Skeptical theism is a type of reply to arguments from evil against God’s existence. The skeptical theist declines to accept a premiss of some such argument, professing ignorance, for example, about whether God is justified in permitting certain evils or about the conditional probability that the world contains as much evil as it does, or evils of a particular sort, on the hypothesis that God exists. Skeptical theists are thus not supposed to be skeptical about theism; rather, they are theists (...)
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    Taking someone's word for it.Edward Wierenga - 1978 - Philosophical Studies 34 (2):203 - 205.
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  32. The Fall and Hypertime, by Hud Hudson. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 2017 - Faith and Philosophy 34 (3):370-377.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Edward L. Schoen, Edward Wierenga, William Hasker, Alan R. Drengson, Frank B. Dilley, Frank J. Hoffman & John Elrod - 1993 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 34 (2):115-129.
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    Alvin Plantinga. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1988 - Faith and Philosophy 5 (2):214-219.
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    (1 other version)“Review of Divine Providence by Thomas Flint”. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 2001 - Philosophia Christi 3 (1):262-265.
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    Confrontations with the Reaper. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1994 - Teaching Philosophy 17 (1):78-81.
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    Logic and the Nature of God. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1986 - Faith and Philosophy 3 (1):88-91.
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    New Perspectives on Old-Time Religion. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1992 - Philosophical Review 101 (2):449-542.
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    Review of Ontological Arguments by Graham Poppy. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1998 - Review of Metaphysics 52 (1):163-164.
    The central thesis of this book is that “there are perfectly general grounds on which [the author] can dismiss the possibility of a dialectically effective ontological argument [for God’s existence]”. Since there is no other purpose ontological arguments can achieve, they are “completely worthless”.
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  40. "Portraying Analogy" by James F. Ross. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1986 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (4):692.
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    Review of Dean-Peter Baker (ed.), Alvin Plantinga[REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10).
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    The Openness of God. [REVIEW]Edward Wierenga - 1997 - Faith and Philosophy 14 (2):248-252.
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