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Transgenderism, Human Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Properties

Dr. Benjamin H. Arbour, PhD and Dr. John R. Gilhooly, PhD

This paper argues that the narrative of transgenderism contains mutually inconsistent claims and therefore fails.

Natural Anthropology and Revealed Anthropology

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Guillon, PhD

This paper argues that that discoveries in natural anthropology can affect our understanding of revealed anthropology itself.

A Child’s Right to Religious Autonomy: A Response to Hugh LaFollette

Mrs. Amy Davison, MA

Amy Davison evaluates philosopher Hugh LaFollette’s arguments against the use of the first amendment as justification for the removal of children from public school curriculum which their Christian parents find offensive

Atonement and Anthropology: T. F. Torrance’s Doctrine of Atonement as a Test Case

Mr. Christopher G. Woznicki, MA

Christopher Woznicki illuminates T. F. Torrance’s doctrine of atonement in which human nature is an abstract universal that is instantiated by Christ and participated in by all other human beings.

On the Moral and Spiritual Contours of the Philosophical Life: Extending Plantinga’s Advice to Christian Philosophers

Dr. Ross Inman, PhD

This paper explores several intellectual character traits that can hinder as well as aid the cultivation of intellectual courage in the Christian philosophical community.

You Are Not Your Own: A Critique of Liberal Social Ethics

Mr. Tim Hsiao, MA

This paper critiques assumptions and commitments of individualist theories of social ethics.

The Interior Castle: The Soul and Competing Visions of the Church

Dr. Sarah Borden Sharkey, PhD

This paper focuses on models of the soul and asks how each model might understand our unity as a church.

Theology without Persons? Theological Anthropology and Kevin Hector’s Therapeutic Theory of Language Use

Dr. Glenn Butner, Jr., PhD

D. Glenn Butner, Jr. explores and responds to Kevin Hector’s therapeutic theory of language and identifies two problems that arise from Hector’s failure to develop a sufficient theological anthropology that explains how a human can consistently speak to God.