Alexander Pruss's Blog

The biggest problem with Molinism is the grounding problem: there is nothing in reality wherein the subjunctive conditionals of free will (“...

There is a popular picture of Socrates as someone inviting us to think for ourselves. I was just re-reading the Euthyphro , and realizing th...

All grace received is given through Christ’s work of salvation. Christ’s work of salvation happened in the first centuries AD and BC. One...

There is a strong Christian tradition of seeing faith as involving certainty . Now, perhaps this certainty is just something like moral cert...

The deep realization that Christ is our only hope has significant existential force for a lot of people in motivating Christian faith. ...

I sent the following in an email to a former student. He knows a lot more about the subject—both first-order and second-order—than I do, a...

It's time to defend something like Anselm's idea of infinite culpability.  I once expressed a hope that I'd eventually do so, bu...

Sometimes, Christians worry whether they might not have lost their faith. Here is a line of thought that might be comforting, though i...

Here are three levels of anti-Pelagianism: No fallen human being can attain personal union (i.e., union of the relevant sort—su...

Scripture promises that: For any temptation, the faithful Christian will receive a grace sufficient to withstand that temptation. ...

I think sometimes, especially in popular discussion, the debate over Pelagianism is seen as the "faith versus works" debate...