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The Content of the World in John 3:16 (2023)
Abstract: Debates about the extent of the atonement according to John 3:16 fundamentally depend on how "the world" is to be interpreted. Some argue that it means every person. This is false, but the methodology required to see that is mistaken has not been clearly applied to this particular passage before. By prioritizing the right sort of evidence, an anti-tribalist interpretation of "the world" emerges as the strongest interpretation. God's love for the world is a repudiation of a kind of tribalism, one which treats persons with certain properties as non-recipients of God's love expressed through the salvific acts of the Son. The recipients of God's love traverses any boundaries that we incorrectly place on one another.
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Anselm on Freedom and Grace (2014)
Abstract: The chapter presents Anselm's incompatibilist account of human freedom within the context of his theodicy and presents two arguments against his account. Both arguments aim to show there is a genuine conflict between his account of freedom and the role of God's grace in making agents just. The first argument, the problem of harmonization, highlights the conflict within the soteriological context where an agent changes from being unjust to being just. The second argument, the problem of just creation, highlights the conflict within the context of the creation of agents prior to the presence of evil. Holding fixed his incompatibilist account and the necessity of divine grace, the upshot of both arguments is that Anselm must endorse a version of Pelagianism.
Publication: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, vol. 5 (2014)
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