Issue · 2015
Vol.2, Iss. 4
5 articles · pp. 102-142 · All issues →
ArticlesIf God Didn't Satisfice, We Could Still Exist
Rick Repetti
Theodicies of satisficing – defenses of God’s goodness that justify creating minimally satisfactory beings/worlds – originate with Robert Merrihew Adams (1972, 1979). Adams (1972) argued that in creating imperfect beings God was graceful in g…
7 Mar 2016- Book Review
Dominic Erdozain, The Soul of Doubt: The Religious Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 320+xiii pp, $35.00 Hardcover, ISBN: 0199844615
Corey McCal
In this engaging intellectual history, Dominic Erdozain (Theology, Emory University) seeks to account for European secularization during the modern period. Unlike Hans Blumenberg, and, more recently, Charles Taylor, who tell the story of secularization as a pr…
27 Feb 2016 - Articles
A Para-clerical Approach to the Galileo Affair and to Science vs. Religion
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
In 1633, the Inquisition condemned Galileo for defending Copernicus’s hypothesis of the earth’s motion and denying the scientific authority of Scripture. This ended the original controversy, but generated a new one that continues today, for example…
25 Mar 2016 - Book Review
Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, Oxford University Press, 2014, 255pp, £19.99, ISBN 9780198716044
Elly Vintiadis
Faithful to Science is a book written by a professor of physics at Oxford University who is also a devout Christian. The aim of this book, as the author describes it in the introduction, is to show that scientific study of the natural world…
22 Nov 2015 - Review
Rights, Virtue, and David Boonins Defense of the Implausible Conclusion of the Non-Identity Problem
Stephen Kershnar Email: stephen.kershnar@fredonia.edu
David Boonin is one of, if not the, most important applied ethicist in the world today. His books on race, punishment, and abortion are the gold standards in their respective fields. His most recent book, The Non-Identity Problem & the Ethics of Future Peo…
12 Nov 2015