God's Permission of Sin: Negative Or Conditioned Decree?
Author: Michael D. Torre
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9783727816598
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Do Not Reisist the Spirit's Call
Author: Michael D. Torre
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2013-08-20
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0813221498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Michael D. Torre makes Marín-Sola's articles available in English for the first time. The articles are preceded by an introduction on Marín-Sola and followed by a conclusion that traces the reception of his thought within the Catholic theological community. In Torre's afterword, he defends Marín-Sola's position as substantively the same as that of Aquinas.
Freedom and Sin
Author: Ross McCullough
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2022-07-12
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1467464295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh argument for a venerable but recently neglected solution to the problem of human freedom and divine sovereignty. If God is the creator of all that is, then God is the creator of everything we do. This basic premise of Christian theology raises difficult questions. How can we have free will if God is the source of all our actions? And how can we explain the existence of evil without ascribing it to God? Freedom and Sin resolves this conundrum through a classical position known as compatibilist indeterminism: the idea that God can determine our free choices while not determining all our choices. This solution, which insists that God’s agency is both non-competitive with ours and is not implicated in our sins, has been neglected in recent years but remains the most compelling response to philosophical objections to Christian doctrine. In this volume, Ross McCullough provides a detailed defense and exposition of compatibilist indeterminism, showing how human freedom is not compromised but perfected by being fixed to the will of God. With a novel re-working of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s account of analogy, with an attention to everyday Christian concerns about suffering, and with a consideration of challenging scriptural passages—Jesus’s cryptic explanation of parables in Mark 4 and Paul’s account of election in Romans 9—McCullough demonstrates a commitment both to formidable theological questions and their concrete applications.
Bringing Good Even Out of Evil
Author: B. Kyle Keltz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-11-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1793638934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The question of whether the existence of evil in the world is compatible with the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God has been debated for centuries. Many have addressed classical arguments from evil, and while recent scholarship in analytic philosophy of religion has produced newer formulations of the problem, most of these newer formulations rely on a conception of God that is not held by all theists. In Bringing Good Even Out of Evil: Thomism and the Problem of Evil, B. Kyle Keltz defends classical theism against contemporary problems of evil through the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his interpreters. Keltz discusses Aquinas’s thought on God, evil, and what kind of world God would make, then turns to contemporary problems of evil and shows how they miss the mark when it comes to classical theism. Some of the newer formulations that the book considers include James Sterba’s argument from the Pauline principle, J. L. Schellenberg’s divine hiddenness argument, Stephen Law’s evil-god challenge, and Nick Trakakis’s anti-theodicy.
“Grace Abounds More”: Balthasar’s Eschatological Universalism in Dialogue
Author: Joshua R. Brotherton
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9004681671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The problem of eternal damnation is one that should trouble all believers and impels many to seek answers to fundamental questions outside of the Church. For this reason, theologians with a missionary heart of the last century or more from across the ecclesial spectrum have sought to refashion the gospel in our own estranged image. In dialogue with one of the leading figures of this movement, Joshua Brotherton tackles the question of the plausibility that all will be saved. Sympathetic to their cause, this volume seeks to revise the way in which they envision the reconciliation of divine love and moral evil.
Divine Causality and Human Free Choice
Author: Robert Joseph Matava
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9004310312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →R.J. Matava explains physical premotion as defended by Báñez in the Controversy de Auxiliis. Finding the critiques of Báñez and Molina convincing, Matava argues for an alternative rooted in Aquinas’s teaching on creation.
The Challenges of Divine Determinism
Author: Peter Furlong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-06
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 110848302X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores past and present arguments for and against divine determinism, presenting balanced discussion of a major philosophical and religious debate.
Pascal’s God and the Fragments of the World
Author: Martin Nemoianu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 3031556267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wisdom, Cosmos, and Cultus in the Book of Sirach
Author: A. Jordan Schmidt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 794
ISBN-13: 311060017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite the attention that has already been paid to the theme of creation in the book of Sirach, scholarship has yet to provide a comprehensive analysis of Ben Sira's instruction regarding the cosmic order and its role in the divine bestowal of wisdom upon human beings. This book, which consists of two parts, fills a lacuna in scholarship by offering such an analysis. The first part of this study examines Ben Sira's three main treatments of the created world, thus providing a comprehensive description and synthesis of Ben Sira's doctrine concerning the created order of the cosmos. The second part of this work analyzes the place of human beings in general, and the Jewish people in particular, within the cosmic order. This second part includes an analysis of the role of the created order in Ben Sira's wisdom instruction in 1:1-10 and 24:1-34 as well as an elucidation of the way in which his treatments of various kinds of people—civic leaders, wives, doctors, manual laborers, scribes, and cultic personnel—are integral to Ben Sira's doctrine of creation. This study demonstrates that the created order is a fundamental category that Ben Sira relies upon in articulating his instructions about wisdom and wise behavior.
A Greek Thomist
Author: Matthew C. Briel
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0268107513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation and modification of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of providence by fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios. Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas’s theology, the legacy of Greek patristic and later theological traditions, and the use of Aristotle’s philosophy by Latin and Greek Christian thinkers in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. A Greek Thomist reconsiders our current understanding of later Byzantine theology by reconfiguring the construction of what constitutes “orthodoxy” within a pro- or anti-Western paradigm. The fruit of this appropriation of Aquinas enriches extant sources for historical and contemporary assessments of Orthodox theology. Moreover, Scholarios’s grafting of Thomas onto the later Greek theological tradition changes the account of grace and freedom in Thomistic moral theology. The particular kind of Thomism that Scholarios develops avoids the later vexing issues in the West of the de auxiliis controversy by replacing the Augustinian theology of grace with the highly developed Greek theological concept of synergy. A Greek Thomist is perfect for students and scholars of Greek Orthodoxy, Greek theological traditions, and the continued influence of Thomas Aquinas.
