Alexander Pruss's Blog

For a long time I have thought that the identification of God as the Alpha and the Omega in the Book of Revelation is very Aristotelian: God...

In the popular imagination, the doctrines of literalism and inerrantism about Scripture go hand-in-hand. And there may well be a posi...

My nine-year-old daughter suggested that the fact that aliens aren't mentioned in the Bible gave us good reason to think there are...

The Tradition holds that Scripture has many senses. I found really striking what St Thomas does with this : "The author of ...

It is standard in interpreting Scripture to ask questions like: "What did the Paul hope to accomplish by this passage?" ...

Some people prefer to talk of divine inspiration of Scripture instead of Scriptural inerrance, because they think this way they ca...

Occasionally, the rhetorical question is asked of inerrantists: "What's the use of having an inerrant text, if your interpret...

I am Catholic and I don't believe Sola Scriptura. But here I want to engage in some friendly theologizing, trying to figure o...

[ The main two arguments in this post have been refuted by the first commenter, and so I no longer endorse this post, though I still accept ...

Catholics and the Orthodox see the primary repository of divine revelation (in the sense which Protestants call "special rev...

I once ran a panel discussion between an Islamic theologian and a philosopher of art. The Islamic theologian was defending what s...

Consider a revealed religion, say Christianity. I will use "the Sources" for the locus or loci where revelation is believe...

Consider the following objection to the Catholic faith (this is based on something I got by email): Catholicism includes a large number of d...