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God and Evidence: A Cooperative Approach
This article identifies intellectualism as the view that if we simply think hard enough about our evidence, we get an adequate answer to the question of whether God exists. The article argues against intellectualism, and offers a better alternative involving a kind of volitional evidentialism. If God is redemptive in virtue of seeking divine -human reconciliation, we should expect the evidence for God to be likewise redemptive. In that case, according to the article, the evidence for God would aim to draw the human will toward cooperation with God’s will. Accordingly, the available evidence for God would be volitionally sensitive in that one’s coming to possess it would depend on one’s volitional stance toward its source. The article identifies some implications for divine hiddenness, traditional natural theology, and the view that the evidence for God’s existence is akin to evidence for a scientific hypothesis
Agapeic Theism: Personifying Evidence and Moral Struggle
The epistemology of monotheism offered by philosophers has given inadequate attention to the kind of foundational evidence to be expected of a personal God whose moral character is ’agapeic’, or perfectly loving, toward all other agents. This article counters this deficiency with the basis of a theistic epistemology that accommodates the distinctive moral character of a God worthy of worship. It captures the widely neglected ’agonic’, or struggle-oriented, character of a God who seeks, by way of personal witness and intentional action, to realize and manifest ’agape’ among humans who suffer from selfishness. In doing so, the article identifies the overlooked role of personifying evidence of God in human moral character formation. In agreement with some prominent New Testament themes, the new perspective offered ties the epistemology of monotheism to robust ’agapeic’ morality in a way that makes such epistemology ethically challenging for inquirers about God’s existence. Accordingly,
To Share or not to Share (or what makes employees cooperate)?
Research Impact Case Study, pp 22-2
Reconceiving philosophy of religion
Los filósofos han trabajado durante mucho tiempo con concepciones de Dios, inadecuadas para representar  a un Dios genuinamente digno de adoración. Una deficiencia importante es la omisión de la noción de  severidad divina, apropiada para la idea de un Dios digno de adoración. Como resultado, muchos filósofos  tienen expectativas equivocadas sobre Dios, es decir, expectativas que no concuerdan con lo que serÃan los  propósitos relevantes para Él, si Dios existiera. Estos últimos propósitos incluyen aquello que Dios busca  lograr cuando revela a los seres humanos (la evidencia de) su realidad y voluntad. Las expectativas  equivocadas de Dios nos pueden llevar a buscar pruebas de su existencia en todos los lugares equivocados.  El antÃdoto necesario requiere una reconsideración cuidadosa de nuestras expectativas sobre Dios, y nos  capacita para acercarnos a una epistemologÃa de la religión, de una manera que le hace justicia a la idea de  un Dios digno de adoración. El artÃculo sostiene que la evidencia disponible a los seres humanos de un Dios  digno de adoración, no serÃa para meros espectadores, sino que buscarÃa desafiar la voluntad de los seres  humanos para cooperar con la voluntad perfecta de Dios, como sucede en el caso del desafÃo divino de  GetsemanÃ.Philosophers have long worked with conceptions of God inadequate to a God genuinely worthy of worship. A  key inadequacy is the omission of a notion of divine severity appropriate to the idea of a God worthy of  worship. As a result, many philosophers have misguided expectations for God, that is, expectations that fail  to match what would be God’s relevant purposes, if God exists. The latter purposes include what God aims to achieve in revealing to humans (the evidence of) God’s reality and will. Misguided expectations for God can  leave one looking for evidence for God in all the wrong places. The needed antidote calls for a careful  reconsideration of our expectations for God, and enables us to approach religious epistemology in a way that does justice to the idea of a God worthy of worship. The article contends that the evidence available to  humans from a God worthy of worship would not be for mere spectators, but instead would seek to  challenge the will of humans to cooperate with God’s perfect will, as in the case of the divine challenge from  Gethsemane
Studies in Romans
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Two Great Questions: What Did Christ Do To Save Sinners? and What Must I Do To Be Saved?
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