Paul K Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 460655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul K Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul K |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5036-4588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience
Paul's Suffering God: Frustration in Divine Compassion
The apostle Paul has attracted abundant attention from his teaching in his undisputed letters that Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, suffered and died for his people. Interpreters have been hesitant, however, to find God's suffering in Paul's teaching. It is one thing for Jesus Christ as God's Son to suffer; it is another for God, as the divine Father of Jesus Christ, to suffer in response to people. This article documents Paul's commitment to the…
Divine Manifestation in Perfect Power: Recognising the Spirit of Christ Crucified
Many people question whether God cares for humans. This article considers two questions. First, what kind of divine care for humans is in question? Second, what explains the widespread failure among humans to recognise divine care for them? The best answer to the first question relies on a biblical idea of divine compassion that suffers for what is good for humans as responsible and subsidiary co-rulers with God. Such compassion aims to “perfect”…
Hoping against hope for universal salvation
Some theologians endorse universalism about salvation, the view that God ultimately will save all people with eternal life. This article explains why such universalism is at best an unconfirmed prediction, and not a well-founded position. It identifies God's main options for countering human resistance to salvation and explains why they fail to recommend the truth of universalism. We may hope that salvation is universal, but such hope does not en…
Paul’s Theology of Triumph in Glory: Resurrection and Cross United
Paul’s theology of triumph in glory is widely neglected among interpreters. The neglect hinders understanding of how, in his thought, the resurrection of Jesus is related to the cross of Jesus. This article offers an explanation of their relation on the basis of Paul’s perspective on divine glory. It defends the intrinsic value of both the resurrection and the cross of Jesus for divine glory, opposing the view that his cross is a mere means to hi…
How Faith “Saves”: Faith in God Grounded in Filial Love
Jesus, the apostle Paul, and the authors of John's Gospel and 1 John share a distinctive approach to the relation between divine love and human knowing and trusting (believing in) God. This article identifies the widely neglected importance of their approach, by attending to what God wants from human knowing and trusting God: personal relating by self-entrustment, and eventual belonging, to God in a filial manner with suitable motives, particular…
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics
There are two general ways to approach a controversial topic. The first way defines the key terms for the topic as clearly as possible, in order to give contributors a common focus. This manner of approach keeps participants on the same page, with a shared topic of conversation and debate. The second way does not bother to formulate shared definitions of key terms. Instead, it notes multiple uses of key terms in history, and it allows contributor…
God of Promise and Voucher: Alienation, Reconciliation, and Resurrection
A Christian approach to suffering, sin, and evil cannot offer now a full theodicy. We now ‘know in part’ only regarding divine purposes in allowing suffering, sin, and evil. We can clarify instead how God interacts in righteousness with people as their God of promise and voucher in the midst of suffering, sin, and evil. To that end, this article illuminates a divine effort toward human reconciliation with God in righteousness and resurrection, de…
Moderating Natural Theology: A Heuristic Interrogative Approach
This article proposes an underappreciated value for traditional natural theology and its familiar arguments for the existence of God, without endorsing the soundness or the rational cogency of these arguments. Famously, Aquinas and Kant represent two extremes, with Aquinas endorsing some natural theology arguments for God's existence and Kant opposing such arguments. This article recommends a moderating approach, on the grounds that while Aquinas…
God in Moral Experience: Values and Duties Personified
Biblical Theodicy of Righteous Fulfillment: Divine Promise and Proximity
How, according to the best Biblical theodicy, does God justify God’s allowing extreme suffering and evil? According to this article, the Biblical God is Lord of the future as well as the present and uses the future to fulfill divine promises to humans. The future fulfillment, coupled with present divine proximity to humans, includes restoring and saving them in full righteousness, given their losses from suffering and evil. This lesson is part of…
Divine Self‐Disclosure in Filial Values: The Problem of Guided Goodness
This article’s main thesis is that divine self‐disclosure to humans is best understood in terms of manifested filial values with a distinctive moral intention aimed at cultivating righteousness. To that end, it identifies and clarifies a neglected problem of guided goodness and its significance for God’s self‐disclosure in manifested filial values. Part I characterizes the relevant values as the potential motivating powers of some goods to enable…
Moral Rapport in Communion of the Spirit
The communion ( koinōnia ) of the Spirit calls for moral rapport with God, based on the reception of divine righteousness in the “fruit of the Spirit” among humans. This article explains the centrality of such moral rapport to the koinōnia of the Spirit, on the basis of insights from the book of Genesis, some of the Hebrew psalmists, and the apostle Paul. It gives special attention to Paul’s perspective on the “fruit of the Spirit,” thereby ident…
God Has Something to Prove: Vindication in Biblical Theology
God has something to prove to humans, but they typically overlook this. They often ask what they can prove about God, but they rarely ask what God aims to prove to or about them. This striking omission calls for correction, for the sake of responsible inquiry about God. The correction offered here will explain that the answer to the question of what God aims to prove determines the answer to the question of what humans are able to prove about God…
Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice: Righteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity
God as Righteous Agitator: Grounding Biblical Theology
Biblical theology should be grounded in a broad perspective, an Überblick, on the character of God as the main actor in biblical history. Without such a perspective, we will lose sight of what kind of agent motivates the main story-line of the Bible. If our perspective is inadequate, we will fail to recognize how God works in history, including biblical history. Biblical interpreters typically have neglected a key feature of the biblical God: God…
Divine Moral Inspiration: Unity in Biblical Theology
Scholars of the Bible have long sought a theme that can identify substantial unity in the various Biblical writings without disregarding their undeniable diversity. In this context, scholars have explored the nature and limits of Biblical inspiration in considerable detail, but the moral inspiration of humans by God has received relatively little attention. This neglect is striking, because such divine inspiration of humans is arguably a silver l…
The Fear of the Lord: The Beginning of Reconciliation
Some of the Biblical narratives seem inconsistent regarding human fear of God. For instance, according to Luke’s Gospel, Jesus commanded fear of God, but he also evidently commanded ‘Do not be afraid’ in relation to God. To block inconsistency, this article clarifies two kinds of motivational fear of God: conforming fear and nonconforming fear relative to God’s will. It explains why conforming, obedient fear of God, even when combined with felt a…
Grounded Hope in God: Epiphany and Promise
Various New Testament writings assume an important role for hope in God. The role of eschatology in those writings stems from a role for hope regarding what God will accomplish by way of redemption. The apostle Paul goes further to identify a widely neglected evidential ground for hope in God. This ground is in divine agapē toward humans in their experience, and it anchors, as supporting evidence, not only human hope in God but also divine promis…
Jesus and Abba in Gethsemane: A Center in Filial Cooperation
What motivated and empowered Jesus to go, willingly, to Jerusalem to undergo suffering and death? He could have chosen to avoid the fatal confrontation in Jerusalem, but he intended to endure it, despite its tragic end. This situation calls for an explanation in terms of what empowered him in carrying out his intention while facing suffering and death. Such an explanation takes us beyond the periphery to the center of Jesus’s self-understanding a…
Using the Bible with Candor
Jesus as Moral-Kingmaker: Gatekeeper for a Co-Owned Dual Kingdom
If we know anything about Jesus of Nazareth, we know that he had a message about the “kingdom of God.” The synoptic Gospels confirm this, if they confirm anything. A challenge arises, however, in our identifying what Jesus thought of the arrival of this kingdom, especially regarding its timing and its role for divine judgment, and what he considered its intended impact on a person’s experience, beyond talk about it. If the kingdom in question is …
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
For centuries, theologians and philosophers, among others, have examined the nature of religious experience. Students and scholars unfamiliar with the vast literature face a daunting task in grasping the main issues surrounding the topic of religious experience. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers an original introduction to its topic. Going beyond an introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with critical a…
History and Presence by Robert A. Orsi
God, Suffering, and Certitude: From Transcendence to Immanence
Philosophy of religion suffers from inadequate attention to the specific moral character of a transcendent God worthy of worship. This deficiency often results from an unduly abstract conception of a transcendent God, including correspondingly abstract notions of divine goodness and power. A Christian approach to God has a unique solution to this problem, owing to its understanding of Jesus Christ as the perfect human representative of God’s mora…
Kierkegaard's Conception of God
Philosophers have often misunderstood Kierkegaard's views on the nature and purposes of God due to a fascination with his earlier, pseudonymous works. We examine many of Kierkegaard's later works with the aim of setting forth an accurate view on this matter. The portrait of God that emerges is a personal and fiercely loving God with whom humans can and should enter into relationship. Far from advocating a fideistic faith or a cognitively unrestra…
Justification in the Natural Sciences
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Justification and Indefinite Propositions: Disarming Gettier's Counterexamples
Los contraejemplos de Gettier al análisis tradicional del conocimiento como una creencia verdadera y justificada, muestran que hay creencias verdaderas justificadas en "evidencias ", pero que no constituyen un conocimiento, porque, por ejemplo, a1guien (digamos, Smith) puede tener la evidencia justificada y así creer que (I) Jones obtendrá el empleo y tiene 10 monedas en el bolsillo, sobre la base de la cual estará justificado en creer que (2) la…
Types, Tokens, and Propositions: Quine's Alternative to Propositions
A notorious feature of Quine's philosophy of language is its rejection of propositions construed as abstract extra-linguistic items. The overarching aim of this essay is to argue that Quine's assault on propositions is in part defective and can in part be turned against his own theory of truth-bearers. Part I sets forth and begins assessment of Quine's major objections to the theory of propositions, viz., those concerned with the explanatory valu…
Empirical Justification
Ascending from empirical foundations
Perception and Belief: A Regress Problem
What has belief to do with perception? Some contemporary philosophers have suggested that one's perceiving an object entails one's having a particular perceptual belief, not just some belief or other, about that object. N. R. Hanson, for instance, has illustrated the present view, with respect to visual perception, as follows: What is it to see boxes, staircases, birds, antelopes, bears, goblets, X-ray tubes? It is (at least) to have knowledge of…
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Empirical Justification
Observation and Objectivity
Wittgenstein and the turning-point in the philosophy of mathematics
Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science . Patrick A. Heelan
The circle of acquaintance: Perception, consciousness and empathy, synthese library, vol. 205
Consequentialism and Self-Defeat
Journal Article Consequentialism and Self-Defeat Get access Paul K. Moser Paul K. Moser Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 162, January 1991, Pages 82–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219788 Published: 01 January 1991
Knowledge and Evidence
Acknowedgments Introduction 1. Conditions for propositional knowledge 2. Minimal epistemic reasons 3. Justifying epistemic reasons 4. Foundationalism and some alternatives 5. Procedural epistemic rationality 6. Propositional knowledge References Index
Justification in the Natural Sciences
Knowledge and Evidence
Philosophy after Objectivity
This treatise discusses a range of central philosophical disputes about knowledge, objectivity, meaning, physicalism and practical rationality. Its explanations affect all areas of theoretical philosophy and challenge common assumptions about objectivity and realism.
Knowledge and Evidence
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Knowledge and Evidence. By Paul K. Moser. (Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. xii + 285. Price £13.95 p/b.) Mark T. Nelson Mark T. Nelson Hampden-Sydney College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 171, April 1993, Pages 242–244, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220375 Published: 01 April 1993
Philosophy after objectivity: Making Sense in Perspective
Philosophy after Objectivity: Making Sense in Perspective
Introduction 1. Ontology, Evidence, and Philosophical Questions 2. Justification, Meta-Epistemology, and Meaning 3. Meaning, Interpretation, and Analyticity 4. Reasons, Truth, and Relativism 5. Physicalism, Action, and Explanation Appendix: Charity, Interpretation, and Truth References Index
Precis of Philosophy after Objectivity
Reply to Quinn and Audi on Philosophy after Objectivity
Quinn offers three interpretive puzzles that lead him to request some clarification. Helpfully, Quinn himself offers some answers to his own request. First, regarding conditional ontological agnosticism, Quinn suggests that I would accept the following principle: If one insists on having agnostic-resistant non-questionbegging epistemic reasons before one endorses any philosophical thesis, then one ought not to endorse any claim that entails the e…
The Relativity of Skepticism
Pyrrhonian skeptics oppose positive and negative dogmatism. They hold both that (a) for all we know, we do not know anything, and that (b) for all we know, we know many things, including things about the external world. What, however, is the epistemic status of theses (a) and (b)? In particular, what do Pyrrhonian skeptics claim regarding the epistemic status of (a)? Do they claim to know that (a) is true? If so, they claim both that (c) we do kn…
Moral Relativism: A Reader
Preface Introduciton I. GENERAL ISSUES 1. Richard Brandt, 2. Karl Popper, Facts, Standards, and Truth: A Further Criticism of 3. James Rachels, The Challenge of Cultural II. RELATIVISM AND MORAL DIVERSITY 4. William Graham Sumner, Folkways 5. Ruth Benedict, Anthropology and the Abnormal 6. W.D. Ross, The Meaning of Right 7. Michele Moody-Adams, The Empirical Underdetermination of Descriptive Cultural 8. Carl Wellman, The Ethical Implications of C…
Contemporary Materialism
The Oxford handbook of epistemology
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