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    • Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2013)
      In this paper we explore the idea that pentecostalism is best supported by conjoining it to a postmodern, narrative epistemology in which everything is a text requiring interpretation. On this view, truth doesn’t consist ...
    • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2015)
      In a series of articles in this journal, Wes Morriston has launched what can only be considered a full-scale assault on the divine command theory (DCT) of morality. According to Morriston, proponents of this theory are ...
    • Explaining Evil: Four Views 

      Franks, W. Paul (Editor); Tyndale University; Department of Philosophy; Tyndale University, J. William Horsey Library, 3377 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, M2M 3S4, Canada. Contact: repository@tyndale.ca (Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing PlcLondon, UK ; New York, 2019)
    • On Jesus, Derrida, and Dawkins: Rejoinder to Joshua Harris 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2014)
      In this paper we respond to three objections raised by Joshua Harris to our article, “Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology,” in which we express misgivings about the conjunction of Pentecostalism with James K. A. ...
    • Original Sin and a Broad Free Will Defense 

      Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2012)
      I begin with a distinction between narrow and broad defenses to the logical problem of evil. The former is simply an attempt to show that God and evil are not logically incompatible whereas the latter attempts the same, ...
    • What Place, Then, for Rational Apologetics? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Moody PublishingChicago, IL, 2014)
    • Why a Believer Could Believe That God Answers Prayers 

      Franks, W. Paul (SpringerNew York, 2009-08)
      In a previous issue of this journal Michael Veber argued that God could not answer certain prayers because doing so would be immoral. In this article I attempt to demonstrate that Veber’s argument is simply the logical ...