Alexander Pruss's Blog

The Christian’s deepest desire is for direct union with God. Our union with the Father must always be mediated by the Son. So, if only th...

Let’s start with a line of thought that doesn’t require Molinism. Let Infinite Chances be the thesis that God never definitively damns someo...

Personhood is teleologically relational in the sense that a person is the kind of being that necessarily can only be fulfilled in relations...

Here are two Aristotelian theses: Complete human flourishing requires the exercise of all the human virtues. Courage is a human virtue. ...

I was reading Jerry Walls’ lovely piece on purgatory for class. Thinking about it has made me realize that given that all who are in heaven...

One of the old puzzles of Christology is why it is that in us the soul and body together compose a person, but they do not do so in Christ. ...

Corruptionism is the Christian view that at death we cease to exist, and only return to existence at the resurrection of the dead. There are...

One now-classic solution to some of the challenges of the doctrine of the Trinity is relative identity. On relative identity accounts of the...

A principle that both Catholic and Orthodox Christians appreciate is lex orandi, lex credendi : the law of prayer is the law of faith, Now ...

Suppose we model the Trinity as three vertices with arrows between them representing relations of procession, such that: No two vertices h...

I am an absolutist about lying: I think it’s always wrong to lie. But even if I were a permissivist about lying, I would think that there ar...

Over the past two hundred years or so, one new tension point arose for the relationship between Christianity and science due to scientific p...

Every so often I come against someone who is defending a Christological view I want to call “mononoetism”: that Christ has only one mind. Wh...

Here is a very plausible pair of claims: The Son could have become incarnate as a different human being. God foreknew many centuries ahea...

I want to think a bit about conservative Christian views of sex and gender, but before that I want to offer two stories to motivate a crucia...

Start with this argument: It’s not wrong for me to love my friend as if they were in the image and likeness of God. If someone is not God...

The Gospel message—the account of the infinite and perfect God becoming one of us in order to suffer and die in atonement of our sins—is imm...

From childhood, I remember the Polish Christmas carol “Amidst the Silence of Night” from around the beginning of the 19th century, and I re...

On “exemplar” theories of salvation, Christ’s work of the cross saves us by providing a deeply inspiring example of love, sacrifice, or the ...

I’ve just realized that there is something rather attractive about panpsychism from a Christian point of view. All things God has created ar...