Temporary Intrinsics and Christological Predication

Pawl, Timothy

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757702.003.0007

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“…30 ENDNOTES 1 For other discussions of this objection, see: Adams (2006), Arendzen (1941, Bäck (1998, 84), Bartel (1995, Cupitt (1977, 136), Davis (2006, 116), Dawson (2004, 161-162), Evans (2006, 13), Feenstra (2006, 142-144), Ferrier (1962, Geisler and Watkins (1985), Gorman (2000Gorman ( , 2011Gorman ( , 2014Gorman ( , 2016, Hall (1898, chap. 3, section 5;chapter 8), Hebblethwaite (2008, 60), Hick (1989, Hill (2012, Kelly (1994), Knox (1967, 36), Leftow (2011a, 316), Loke (2009, Macquarrie (1990, Moreland and Craig (2003, 597), Morris (1987, Moulder (1986, Pannenberg (1968, 296-297), Pawl (2014a, 2016a, 2016b, Pollard (1955, Senor (2002, 221), Spence (2008, 16), Stump (1989, Sturch (1991, Vallicella (2002), van Inwagen (1998, Ware (2013, 16), and Weston (1914, 181).…”

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confidence: 99%

Freedom and the incarnation

Pawl¹,

Timpe

2016

Philosophy Compass

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In this paper, we explore how free will should be understood within the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, particularly on the assumption of traditional Christology. We focus on two issues: (i) reconciling Christ's free will with the claim that Christ's human will was subjected to the divine will in the Incarnation; and (ii) reconciling the claims that Christ was fully human and free with the belief that Christ, since God, could not sin.

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Freedom and the incarnation

Pawl¹,

Timpe

2016

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“…And in fact, kenotic theologians can respond to Type-C objections to perfect being theology in virtue of certain divine attributes being temporally indexed. Pawl has shown that kenotic theology also has the resources to avoid the logical objection to the Incarnation by insisting on the irreducibility of tense in the copulas joining certain predicates to the Second Person (Pawl 2016). The kenotic theologian ought to say, according to Pawl, that the Second Person was impassible and is passible, and that from this conjunction we cannot derive the logical contradiction that the Second Person is both impassible and passible (Pawl 2016, p. 177).…”

Section: Incarnation Evil Scripturementioning

confidence: 99%

Fluctuating maximal God

Jeffrey

Lancaster-Thomas

Moravec³

2020

Int J Philos Relig

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This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa's maximal God thesis with the view that God is not atemporal. We argue that the original maximal God thesis still implicitly relies on a "static" view of divine perfections. Instead, following the recent re-evaluation of divine immutability by analytic philosophers, we propose that thinking of divine great-making properties (omnipotence, omniscience etc.) as fluctuating but nevertheless remaining maximal either for every time t or across all times strengthens the original maximal God thesis. Furthermore, we show that "temporalising" Nagasawa's maximal God and adopting what we call the fluctuating maximal God thesis provides more effective ways of responding to objections to perfect being theism, in particular, the argument from evil and some conceptual problems pertaining to the Incarnation. Finally, we demonstrate that our proposal is compatible with Christian Scriptures and coheres with numerous biblical passages better than Nagasawa's original proposal does.

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“…As always with such contextual matters, precise rules are not available. Pawl (2015) classifies 'qua'-based responses to the apparent Christological contradictions on the basis of the role played by the term 'qua': it could signal tense, signal a tacit sortal, or modify the subject, predicate or copula. Perhaps surprisingly it is not quite clear how the above account fits into Pawl's classification.…”

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“…Finally, I will discuss the possibility of extending the story outside of the nested mode context, and how one might reconcile the account with divine simplicity. 1 1 For an excellent thorough recent discussion of the ways of understanding the Christological 'qua' , see Pawl (2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%