Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Petitionary Prayer" by Scott A. Davison
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- Basinger, David, 1983, “Why Petition an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Wholly Good God?” Religious Studies, 19: 25–42. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “God Does Not Necessarily
Respond to Prayer,” in Michael L. Peterson (ed.),
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishing: 255–264. (Scholar)
- Benson, Herbert; Jeffery A. Dusek; Jane B. Sherwood; Peter Lam;
Charles F. Bethea; William Carpenter; Sidney Levitsky; Peter C. Hill;
Donald W. Clem, Jr.; Manoj K. Jain; David Drumel; Stephen L. Kopecky;
Paul S. Mueller; Dean Marek; Sue Rollins; and Patricia L. Hibberd,
2006, “Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer
(STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: A multicenter randomized trial of
uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer”
American Heart Journal, 151(4): 934–42. (Scholar)
- Byrd, R. C., 1988, “Positive Therapeutic Effects of
Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population,”
Southern Medical Journal, 81: 826–9. (Scholar)
- Brümmer, Vincent, 2008, What Are We Doing When We Pray? On Prayer and the Nature of Faith, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited. (Scholar)
- Choi, Isaac, 2016, “Is Petitionary Prayer Superfluous?” in Jonathan Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 168–195. (Scholar)
- Creel, Richard, 1985, Divine Impassibility: An Essay in Philosophical Theology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Davison, Scott A., 2010, “Prophecy,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <Prophecy/">https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2010/entries/Prophecy/>. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “On the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer: Response to Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 3: 227–37. (Scholar)
- –––, 2017, Petitionary Prayer: A
Philosophical Investigation, Oxford: Oxford University
Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2022, God and Prayer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements Series). (Scholar)
- Flint, Thomas P., 1998, Divine Providence: The Molinist
Account, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Furlong, Peter, 2019, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Harris, W. S.; M. Gowda; J. W. Kolb; C. P. Strychacz; J. L. Vacek;
P. G. Jones; A. Forker; J. H. O’Keefe; and B. D. McCallister,
1999, “A Randomized, Controlled Trial of the Effects of Remote,
Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients Admitted to the Coronary
Care Unit,” Archives of Internal Medicine volume, 159:
2273–8. (Scholar)
- Hasker, William, 1989, God, Time and Knowledge, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
- Helm, Paul, 2010, “Eternity,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <Eternity/">https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2010/entries/Eternity/>. (Scholar)
- Hoffman, Joshua, 1985, “On Petitionary Prayer,” Faith and Philosophy, 2(1): 21–29. (Scholar)
- Howard-Snyder, Daniel and Frances, 2011, “The Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer,” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 3: 43–68. (Scholar)
- Hunt, David P., 2009, “The Providential Advantage of Divine Foreknowledge,” in Kevin Timpe (ed.), Arguing About Religion, London and New York: Routledge Press, 374–385. (Scholar)
- Johnson, Daniel, 2020, “How Puzzles of Petitionary Prayer Solve Themselves: Divine Omnirationality, Interest-Relative Explanation, and Answered Prayer,” Faith and Philosophy, 37(2): 137–57. (Scholar)
- Leftow, Brian, 2011, “Immutability,” The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta
(ed.), URL =
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/immutability/>. (Scholar)
- Leibovici, L., 2001, “Effects of Remote, Retroactive
Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients with Bloodstream
Infection: Randomised Controlled Trial,” British Medical
Journal, 323: 1450–1. (Scholar)
- Murray, Michael and Kurt Meyers, 1994, “Ask and It Will be Given to You,” Religious Studies, 30: 311–30. (Scholar)
- –––, 2004, “God Responds to Prayer” in Michael L. Peterson (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing: 242–254. (Scholar)
- Phillips, D. Z., 1981, The Concept of Prayer, New York:
Seabury Press. (Scholar)
- Pruss, Alexander R., 2007, “Prophecy Without Middle Knowledge,” Faith and Philosophy, 24(4), 433–57. (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Omnirationality,” Res Philosophica, 90(1), 1–21. (Scholar)
- Smilansky, Saul, 2012, “A Problem About the Morality of Some Common Forms of Prayer,” Ratio, 25(2): 207–215. (Scholar)
- Stump, Eleonore, 1979, “Petitionary Prayer,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 16: 81–91. (Scholar)
- Swinburne, Richard, 1998, Providence and the Problem of Evil, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Timpe, Kevin, 2005, “Prayers for the Past,” Religious
Studies, 41(3): 305–322. (Scholar)
- Timpe, Kevin and Speak, Daniel, 2016, Free Will and Theism: Connections, Contingencies, and Concerns, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Viney, Donald, 2020, “Process Theism,” The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2012 Edition), Edward
N. Zalta (ed.), URL =
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/process-theism/>. (Scholar)
- Wainwright, William, 2010, “Concepts of God,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2010/entries/concepts-god/>. (Scholar)
- White, Heath, 2019, Fate and Free Will: A Defense of
Theological Determinism, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame
Press. (Scholar)
- Wierenga, Edward, “Omniscience,” 2010, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <Omniscience/">https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2010/entries/Omniscience/>. (Scholar)
- Zagzebski, Linda, 2011, “Foreknowledge and Free Will,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/>. (Scholar)