divine treasuries

Bond Durations: Corporates vs. Treasuries

We compare the durations of corporate and Treasury bonds in the reducedform, intensity based credit risk modeling framework. In the case where default risk is independent of default-free interest rates, we provide in each of the three most popular recovery regimes a sufficient condition under which the duration of the corporate bond is smaller than the duration of a similar Treasury bond. In th...

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Divine Cognitive Power

Standard analyses of omniscience are advanced in terms of a being's knowing the truth value of propositions. For example, Kenny writes that 'The doctrine of omni-science is easy to formulate precisely: it is the doctrine that for all p, then God knows that p.1 Richard Swinburne proposes that 'To say of a person P that he is omniscient at time t is to say that at t P knows of every true proposit...

Metaepistemology and Divine Revelation

In Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation, William Abraham offers a rich, subtle defense of an epistemology of divine revelation. In this paper, I focus on a cluster of metaepistemological claims made by Abraham. Specifically, I argue that Abraham’s remarks about epistemic fit and the epistemic standards we bring to bear in making evaluations of divine revelation claims commit him to a spe...

Stead ' S Divine Substance

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Special Divine Revelation as Rational

The handiwork and the glory of God displayed by the heavens and the firmament have been called General Divine Revelation. In this category one may also include the constitution of human personality, for man himself is a creation of God and in some sense bears the marks of his Creator. This “light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and pow...