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    • Layman’s Lapse: On an Incomplete Moral Argument for Theism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Center for InquiryAmherst, NY, 2013)
      C. Stephen Layman contends that an argument supporting theism over naturalism can be constructed based on three defensible, non–question-begging premises about the moral order. Previous critics of Layman’s argument have ...
    • The Metaphysics of Theism and Modality 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Peter Lang PublisherNew York, 2001)
    • Modified Theistic Activism 

      Gould, Paul M., 1971-; Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (BloomsburyNew York, 2014)
    • 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. ...
    • Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Evangelical Philosophical Society in cooperation with Biola UniversityLa Mirada, Calif., 2009)
      I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only ...
    • Plantinga’s Defence and His Theodicy are Incompatible 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (RoutledgeNew York, 2018)
    • A Puzzle for Particulars? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Brown, David S. (Springer[S.l.], 2008)
    • Reply to Critics 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Bloomsbury AcademicLondon, UK, 2019)
    • Response to Erik J. Wielenberg 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Bloomsbury Academic PlcLondon, UK, 2019)
    • Response to Michael Ruse 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Bloomsbury AcademicLondon, UK, 2019)
    • Response to Paul Helm 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Bloomsbury AcademicLondon, UK, 2019)
    • Was C.S. Lewis a Rational Determinist? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Edinburgh University PressEdinburgh, 2022-10)
      In his recently published book C. S. Lewis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Stewart Goetz argues that C.S. Lewis endorsed a form of rational determinism, according to which we are causally determined to draw the conclusions we do. ...
    • What Place, Then, for Rational Apologetics? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Moody PublishingChicago, IL, 2014)
    • Where the Bootstrapping Really Lives 

      Gould, Paul M., 1971-; Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Fordham University PressNew York, 2017-12)
      Modified Theistic Activism is the view that abstract objects not essentially possessed by God fall under God’s creative activity in one way or another. Michelle Panchuk has argued that this position succumbs to the ...