J Wesley Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Wesley Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Wesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University South Bend |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Belief in God, Proper Basicality, and Rationality
Journal Article Belief in God, Proper Basicality, and Rationality Get access J Wesley Robbins J Wesley Robbins Indiana University—South Bend Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 339–341, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.2.339 Published: 01 July 1993
Thinking across the American Grain
When Christians become Naturalists
The classical pragmatists were as concerned as any of their modern philosophical predecessors that the moral and religious aspects of human life not be swamped by the successes of the physical sciences. It was John Dewey, after all, who said that The problem of restoring integration and cooperation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about the values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest pr…
You Will Be like God
On Christian Philosophy
On Christian Philosophy Get access J. Wesley Robbins J. Wesley Robbins Indiana UniversitySouth Bend Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 622–624, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.3.622 Published: 01 October 1989
Pragmatism and the Deconstruction of Theology
Theological deconstructionism written in a Derridean manner typically consists of twin announcements about the religious character, and significance, of contemporary experience and culture. The first is the announcement of the death of both the transcendent God and His latter-day substitutes, such as the transcendental self, which have provided the religious underpinnings for classical and modern culture, respectively
Christian World View Philosophy and Pragmatism
Christian World View Philosophy and Pragmatism Get access J. Wesley Robbins J. Wesley Robbins J Wesley Robbins is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University at South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 529–543, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI.3.529 Published: 01 October 1988
Religion in Culture
The scientific creationist movement has been roundly criticized by a wide spectrum of religious leaders, theologians, and philosophers of religion for its attempts to have its idiosyncratic ideas about the physical world taught in the public schools as scientific alternatives to evolutionary ideas. These religious critics have typically agreed with their secular counterparts that the scientific creationists are guilty of a serious distortion of s…
In Defence of Attitudinal Christianity
In 1968, R. M. Hare gave a series of lectures at the Yale Divinity School, two of which were published subsequently under the title ‘The Simple Believer’.1 In those published lectures Hare enlarged upon and defended the view, which he shares with R. B. Braithwaite, that Christian commitment is best understood as being what I will call a particular world-attitude. In brief, Hare described the Christian world-attitude as consisting, first, of the a…
Are the Things That We Call ‘Wrong’ Contrary to the Commands of a Loving God
Divine command theories of morality have not been particularly popular among philosophers for some time. Consequently, such theories have received very little serious attention in recent years. One notable exception to this rule has been Robert M. Adams, who on several occasions has defended what he calls a modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness (1973, 1979a, 1979b). Most recently he has formulated this theory in terms drawn from cur…
On Human Care
On the Role of Vision in Morality
In his collection of essays entitled Vision and Virtue Professor Stanley Hauerwas has argued that the discipline of Christian ethics suffers from the wide acceptance of a conception of moral experience that is much too narrow. One consequence of this is that it becomes difficult to make sense of, and to defend, the thesis that there is a distinctly Christian form of moral life, i.e., a distinct subject matter for Christian ethics Hauerwas goes on…
Moral Standards and the Application of the Term “God”
Moral Standards and the Application of the Term “God”: A Response to Kai Nielsen's Ethics Without God Get access J. WESLEY ROBBINS J. WESLEY ROBBINS J. WESLEY ROBBINS is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University at South Bend His articles have appeared in The Journal of Religion, The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and The Modern Schoolman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
Professor Gilkey and Alternative Methods of Theological Construction
Professor Gilkey and Alternative Methods of Theological Construction
Moral Standards and the Application of the Term “God”
Moral Standards and the Application of the Term “God”: A Response to Kai Nielsen's Ethics Without God Get access J. WESLEY ROBBINS J. WESLEY ROBBINS J. WESLEY ROBBINS is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University at South Bend His articles have appeared in The Journal of Religion, The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and The Modern Schoolman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
On the Role of Vision in Morality
In his collection of essays entitled Vision and Virtue Professor Stanley Hauerwas has argued that the discipline of Christian ethics suffers from the wide acceptance of a conception of moral experience that is much too narrow. One consequence of this is that it becomes difficult to make sense of, and to defend, the thesis that there is a distinctly Christian form of moral life, i.e., a distinct subject matter for Christian ethics Hauerwas goes on…
On Human Care
Are the Things That We Call ‘Wrong’ Contrary to the Commands of a Loving God
Divine command theories of morality have not been particularly popular among philosophers for some time. Consequently, such theories have received very little serious attention in recent years. One notable exception to this rule has been Robert M. Adams, who on several occasions has defended what he calls a modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness (1973, 1979a, 1979b). Most recently he has formulated this theory in terms drawn from cur…
In Defence of Attitudinal Christianity
In 1968, R. M. Hare gave a series of lectures at the Yale Divinity School, two of which were published subsequently under the title ‘The Simple Believer’.1 In those published lectures Hare enlarged upon and defended the view, which he shares with R. B. Braithwaite, that Christian commitment is best understood as being what I will call a particular world-attitude. In brief, Hare described the Christian world-attitude as consisting, first, of the a…
Religion in Culture
The scientific creationist movement has been roundly criticized by a wide spectrum of religious leaders, theologians, and philosophers of religion for its attempts to have its idiosyncratic ideas about the physical world taught in the public schools as scientific alternatives to evolutionary ideas. These religious critics have typically agreed with their secular counterparts that the scientific creationists are guilty of a serious distortion of s…
Pragmatism and the Deconstruction of Theology
Theological deconstructionism written in a Derridean manner typically consists of twin announcements about the religious character, and significance, of contemporary experience and culture. The first is the announcement of the death of both the transcendent God and His latter-day substitutes, such as the transcendental self, which have provided the religious underpinnings for classical and modern culture, respectively
Christian World View Philosophy and Pragmatism
Christian World View Philosophy and Pragmatism Get access J. Wesley Robbins J. Wesley Robbins J Wesley Robbins is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University at South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVI, Issue 3, Fall 1988, Pages 529–543, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVI.3.529 Published: 01 October 1988
On Christian Philosophy
On Christian Philosophy Get access J. Wesley Robbins J. Wesley Robbins Indiana UniversitySouth Bend Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 622–624, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.3.622 Published: 01 October 1989
When Christians become Naturalists
The classical pragmatists were as concerned as any of their modern philosophical predecessors that the moral and religious aspects of human life not be swamped by the successes of the physical sciences. It was John Dewey, after all, who said that The problem of restoring integration and cooperation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about the values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest pr…
You Will Be like God
Belief in God, Proper Basicality, and Rationality
Journal Article Belief in God, Proper Basicality, and Rationality Get access J Wesley Robbins J Wesley Robbins Indiana University—South Bend Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 2, Summer 1993, Pages 339–341, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.2.339 Published: 01 July 1993
Thinking across the American Grain
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