Why Theologians Worried About Univocal Language for God
How Aquinas navigated the impossible space between saying too much about God and saying nothing at all
Divine Timelessness: Is God Outside of Time?
Classical theology claims God has no before or after—what does that actually mean?
Why Aquinas Distinguished Essence and Existence—And Why It Matters
How one medieval distinction grounds divine simplicity, necessity, and the contingency of all created things
Does God Have Emotions? Divine Impassibility Reconsidered
Classical theology claimed God cannot be emotionally affected—but can a truly loving God remain unmoved?
Why Religious Experience Might Count as Evidence
Philosophical analysis of whether mystical encounters and divine presence provide genuine evidence for transcendent reality
Why Believing Without Sufficient Evidence Might Be Morally Wrong
Is sloppy believing just irrational, or is it genuinely immoral?
Original Sin: Philosophical Sense or Incoherent Doctrine?
Examining whether inherited guilt and moral corruption make philosophical sense or collapse under analysis
Can God Be Perfectly Good and Still Command War?
When scripture commands violence, theological ethics faces its hardest test—and the answers reshape everything.
What Faith Actually Is: Knowledge, Trust, or Something Else Entirely?
Three competing philosophical models reveal that faith may be far more complex than simple belief.
The Coherence of Theism: Is the Concept of God Even Possible?
Examining whether omniscience, omnipotence, and eternity can coexist without contradiction
Creation Ex Nihilo: What It Means and Why It Matters
Why theologians insist God created from absolute nothing, and what that claim reveals about existence itself
Why Aquinas Thought We Can Prove God Exists—Without Faith
How a medieval friar tried to prove God's existence using Aristotle and observation alone
Why the Problem of Evil Still Haunts Philosophy After 2,000 Years
Twenty centuries of philosophy haven't resolved whether divine perfection and worldly suffering can logically coexist
Anselm's Ontological Argument: Brilliant Insight or Logical Trick?
Examining whether God's existence can be proven through pure reason and conceptual analysis alone
Is Suffering Ever Truly Meaningless? The Soul-Making Theodicy
Examining whether a loving God might design a world with suffering as the necessary condition for genuine moral and spiritual growth.
Miracles and Natural Law: When Does Divine Action Become Impossible?
Why your view on miracles reveals more about your metaphysics than your standards for testimony.
Can God Know What You'll Freely Choose Tomorrow?
How philosophers reconcile an all-knowing God with your genuine power to choose otherwise than what divine knowledge already contains.
Why Religious Language Might Be Meaningless (And Why It Might Not)
How philosophy's sharpest attack on theology ultimately revealed the complexity of meaning itself
Divine Simplicity: The Most Counterintuitive Doctrine You've Never Heard
Why classical theologians insisted God must have no parts—and why it matters for understanding ultimate reality
What Would It Mean for God to Act in the World?
Exploring whether divine action requires law-breaking or operates on a fundamentally different causal level than physical processes.
Reformed Epistemology: Why Belief in God Might Not Need Arguments
Plantinga's revolutionary argument that rational faith needs no proof reshapes how we think about knowledge itself