Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It)?
My little book on the problem of evil, Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It?) (Christian Focus Publications, 2018) (224 pp.), has been out for a li...
Author: Greg Welty
Freethinking About Molinist Gunslingers – A Response to Stratton
To contribute a chapter to a book entitled Calvinism and the Problem of Evil just is to stoke controversy and invite replies. This is normal, and should be welc...
Calvinism and the Problem of Evil
My chapter, “Molinist Gunslingers: God and the Authorship of Sin,” was recently published in David E. Alexander and Daniel M. Johnson (eds.), Calvin...
Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne
My review of Reason and Faith: Themes from Richard Swinburne (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016) can be found in Themelios Volume 41 Issue 2 (August 2016). The book R...
The Case Against Reality
Donald Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is known for his studies in visual perception and optical illusio...
Won’t Get Foiled Again – A Rejoinder to Jerry Walls
A couple of months ago (February 2016), Philosophia Christi published my and Steve Cowan’s rejoinder to Jerry Walls’s reply to our response to his o...
The Basis of Counterfactual Repentance
A comment on “Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Molinism.” In Acts 7, Stephen preaches a narrative that culminates in the prophetic witness concerning “...
Are Molinist Distinctives Found in the Bible?
RTS philosopher James Anderson has an interesting post which asks the question, “How Biblical is Molinism?” He concludes that there is strong biblic...
A Response to Jerry Walls on Christian Compatibilism
In Philosophia Christi Vol. 13, No. 1 (Summer 2011), Christian philosopher Jerry Walls published “Why No Classical Theist, Let Alone Orthodox Christian, S...
Before and after
How running* can help demonstrate to your metaphysics class the difference between a thick particular and a thin particular: Before: (2008) After: (2011) *for a...