JAMES D RISSLER
Biographic Data
| ID | 9266480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | JAMES D RISSLER |
| GIVEN NAMES | JAMES D |
| FAMILY NAME | RISSLER |
| SIGNATURE | RISSLER J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Open theism
Open theists have generally affirmed that God exercises general sovereignty, seeking to achieve an overall providential goal related to our freely choosing to love Him, though the path to that goal is uncertain. This understanding of God's relationship to the world has the implication that God risks failure in achieving His purpose, since His success ultimately depends upon our free choices. In this paper, I first outline some concerns about the …
A psychological constraint on obedience to God's commands
Robert Adams, in Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics , suggests a moral constraint on our obedience to God's commands: if a purportedly divine command seems abhorrently evil, then we should infer that it is not really God so commanding. I suggest that in light of his commitments to God as the standard of goodness, to the transcendence of God, and to a critical stance towards ethics, Adams should be willing to consider the possibilit…
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A psychological constraint on obedience to God's commands
Robert Adams, in Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics , suggests a moral constraint on our obedience to God's commands: if a purportedly divine command seems abhorrently evil, then we should infer that it is not really God so commanding. I suggest that in light of his commitments to God as the standard of goodness, to the transcendence of God, and to a critical stance towards ethics, Adams should be willing to consider the possibilit…
Open theism
Open theists have generally affirmed that God exercises general sovereignty, seeking to achieve an overall providential goal related to our freely choosing to love Him, though the path to that goal is uncertain. This understanding of God's relationship to the world has the implication that God risks failure in achieving His purpose, since His success ultimately depends upon our free choices. In this paper, I first outline some concerns about the …
Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Theology and Philosophy of Evil (2 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (2 works) · Certainty (1 work) · Constraint (computer-aided design) (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Environmental ethics (1 work)