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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Eleonore Stump on the Atonement--Paper Delivered at Plantinga Retirement

Eleonore Stump recently gave a paper at the Alvin Plantinga Retirement Celebration at Notre Dame University. She explores how a theory of the atonement needs to provide a solution to the problem of evil in the world. This grows out of a paper written by Alvin Plantinga entitled: Supralapsarianism, in which he argues that the good that comes from the atonement explains why God allowed evil to come about. E.J. Coffman, a Ph.D. graduate who studied under Plantinga makes the response.

The whole video series lasts 90 minutes and provides some good insights into the problems associated with the Anselmian and the Thomistic views of the atonement.

Part One



Part Two



Part Three



Part Four--problems with Anselmian and Thomisitic views



Part Five--problems with Anselmian and Thomisitic views



Part Six--cry of dereliction



Part Seven



Part Eight



Part Nine

6 comments:

  1. It really takes 10,000 theses to explain something that is refuted with one.

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  2. Ken, I haven't got the patience to watch this, but why would they allow her to present a paper like this at a gathering of conservative theologians (which is what I assume they all were, as it was a party for Plantinga)? Isn't she casting doubt upon all of their assumptions?

    (I'm making the inference from your summary of her views below.)

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  3. Cipher,

    She is, I believe Roman Catholic, and the Catholics allow much more diversity among their scholars than do conservative evangelicals. Most of the people in attendance are philosophy professors. It is mostly an academic exercise for them.

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  4. the Catholics allow much more diversity among their scholars than do conservative evangelicals

    Yeah, that I knew.

    Most of the people in attendance are philosophy professors. It is mostly an academic exercise for them.

    Oh. A gathering of "Christian philosophers". I get it.

    It's a shame to see these jokers masquerading as real scholars, but what are you gonna do?

    (Yes, I subscribe to "No True Academic"...)

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    1. Why casting doubt upon all of their philosophical assumptions is bad? In middle schools/high schools we train our kids to do critical thinking, not here?

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