Jan Christian Smuts and His Doctrine of Holism

Jan Smuts and Personality Theory: The Problem of Holism in Psychology

Clement of Alexandria and His Doctrine of Scripture

This article discusses Clement of Alexandria’s doctrine of Scripture based on the terms “voice” of God, “first principle,” and “demonstration” that he uses for Scripture. By studying the usage of these terms and the related passages, it will be made clear that Clement regards Scripture as a vessel of God’s voice, favoring what is now called the theory of verbal inspiration. Mo...

White masculinity: Jan Smuts, race and the South African war.

NO SINGLE FIGURE DID MORE to shape South Africa in the first fifty years of the twentieth century, or to establish it in the international imagination, than Jan Christiaan Smuts. Widely recognised in his day as an exceptional scholar, soldier, and scientist, he was also South Africa’s most outstanding white statesman in the twentieth century, the equivalent in terms of international stature the...

Leibniz ' s Model Of Creation And His Doctrine Of Substance

The subject of creation has long been recognized as central to Leibniz's philosophy. In general, the tendency has been to understand Leibniz's view of the creation of the universe as the actualization of a set of possible substances which stand together in a relation of pre-established harmony. From there, scholarly interest generally seems to shift to questions concerning Leibniz's views on su...

Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...