The Ethics of Childrearing and A Theory of Justice Dr. Michael T. McFall, PhD Michael McFall examines the ethics of Christian childrearing and argues that Christian parents may seek to transmit their beliefs to their children and examine some boundaries. Read more
Thomas Aquinas on Creation, and the Argument for Theistic Evolution from Commentary on Sentences, Book II Fr. Michael Chaberek, O.P., S.T.D. The paper shows that the Thomistic argument for theistic evolution stems from misreading of Aquinas and shows that theistic evolution is incompatible with Christian interpretive traditions from Ambrose and Augustine. Read more
Why We Should Care about Limiting the Use of Infant Daycare Dr. Michael McKeon, PhD As part of an ongoing web project, this paper considers how widespread use of daycare constitutes a serious harm to the development of parent-child intimacy. Read more
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Teleology: Their Irrelevance to Aquinas’s Fifth Way and to Paley’s Argument from Design Dr. Marie George, PhD Marie George offers a further response to Edward Feser’s distinction between an intrinsic tendency to an end as opposed to a tendency to an end imposed from without in light of Aquinas’s Fifth Way. Read more
Why No Classical Theist, Let Alone Orthodox Christian, Should Ever be a Compatibilist Dr. Jerry L. Walls, PhD Jerry Walls’s 2011 article from Philosophia Christi offers a comprehensive critique of philosophical and theological assumptions about compatibilism. Read more
Web Symposium: Academic Disciplines, Faithfulness, and the Christian Scholar Michael Austin, Gregory Ganssle, David Naugle, and Richard Davis respond to Paul Gould’s paper on academic disciplines, integration and being a missional professor. Read more
Further Reflections on Academic Faithfulness: A Reply to Friendly Critics Dr. Paul Gould, PhD Paul Gould replies to Michael Austin, Gregory Ganssle, Richard Davis, and David Naugle as they respond to his Essay on Academic Disciplines, Faithfulness, and the Christian Scholar Read more
A Perspective on Perspectival Factualism: Response to Paul Gould Dr. Richard Brian Davis, PhD Richard Davis offers a modest critique of Paul Gould’s Essay on Academic Disciplines, Faithfulness, and the Christian Scholar. Read more