Metaphysics and God Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump [Paperback]

This volume focuses on contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion through an engagement with Eleonore Stumps seminal work in the field. Topics covered include: the metaphysics of the divine nature (e.g., divine simplicity and eternity); the nature of love and Gods relation to human happiness; and the issue of human agency (e.g., the nature of the human soul and hell).

ForwardFr. Theodore Vitali CP

Acknowledgments

IntroductionKevin Timpe

Section 1: Preacipue de Deo

1. God and Other Uncreated ThingsPeter van Inwagen

2. Aquinas, Divine Simplicity and Divine FreedomBrian Leftow

3. The Real Presence of an Eternal GodThomas D. Senor

4. The Metaphysics of Divine LoveWilliam E. Mann

5. Narrative, Liturgy, and the Hiddenness of GodMichael C. Rea

6. Fittingness and Divine Action in Cur Deus Homo Thomas P. Flint

7. Conservation, Concurrence, and Counterfactuals of FreedomJon Kvanvig

8. More on MolinismJohn Martin Fischer

Section 2: Preacipue de Hominibus

9. The Supervenience of Goodness on BeingJohn E. Hare

10. The Second-Person Account of the Problem of EvilLynne Rudder Baker

11. Theodicies and Human Nature: Dostoevsky on the Saint as WitnessTimothy OConnor

12. Do Human Persons Persist between Death and Resurrection?Jason T. Eberl

13. Love and DamnationC. P. Ragland

14. Friendship in Heaven: Aquinas on Supremely Perfect Happiness and the Communion of the SaintsChristopher Brown

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Kevin Timpe teaches philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives(Continuum), and the editor of Arguing about Religion(Routledge)l3,