Papers

For an up-to-date list of publications, see my Zotero profile.

Journal Articles

• “On the Virtues of Neutrality,” Religious Studies 60:4 (December 2024).
  • A contribution to a symposium on Jc Beall’s Divine Contradiction.
• “A Four-Case Defense of the Authorial Model of Divine Providence,” Journal of Analytic Theology 12 (2024), 47-60.
• “Presuppositionalism in the Dock: A Review Article,” Reformed Faith & Practice 7:1 (May 2022).
  • Spanish translation here.
• “The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God: The Theological Foundations of Modern Science,” Reformed Faith & Practice 4:1 (May 2019).
  • Spanish translation here.
• “On the Rationality of Positive Mysterianism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 83:3 (2018), 291-307.
  • A response to Dale Tuggy, “On Positive Mysterianism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 69 (2010), 205-226.
• “Determined to Come Most Freely: Some Challenges for Libertarian Calvinism,” Journal of Reformed Theology 11:3 (2017), 272-297.
  • Co-authored with Paul Manata. A preprint version is available here.
• “Transgenderism: A Christian Perspective,” Reformed Faith & Practice 2:2 (September 2017).
• “What Are We? Three Views on Human Nature,” Reformed Faith & Practice 2:1 (May 2017).
• “Can We Trust the Bible Over Evolutionary Science?” Reformed Faith & Practice 1:3 (December 2016).
• “The Lord of Noncontradiction: An Argument for God from Logic,” Philosophia Christi 13:2 (2011), 321-338.
  • A revision of my 2010 EPS paper, co-authored with Greg Welty. A preprint version is available here. See also our response to three critics of the argument here.
• “No Dilemma for the Proponent of the Transcendental Argument: A Response to David Reiter,” Philosophia Christi 13:1 (2011), 189-198.
  • A response to David Reiter, “A Dilemma for the Proponent of the Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence,” Philosophia Christi 11:2 (2009), 465-469. A preprint version is available here.
• “In Defence of Mystery: A Reply to Dale Tuggy,” Religious Studies 41:2 (2005), 145-163.
  • A reply to Dale Tuggy, “The Unfinished Business of Trinitarian Theorizing,” Religious Studies 39:2 (2003), 165-183.
• “If Knowledge Then God: The Epistemological Theistic Arguments of Plantinga and Van Til,” Calvin Theological Journal 40:1 (2005), 49-75.
  • An overview and comparison of various epistemological theistic arguments found in the writings of Alvin Plantinga and Cornelius Van Til. A number of unhelpful typographical errors (not to mention an inexplicable insertion of the name ‘Immanuel Kant’) crept into the published version of this article. A preprint version is available here.

Book Chapters

• “Of Free Will” and “Of Effectual Calling,” forthcoming in The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Comprehensive Commentary on Its History, Theology, and Application, ed. John R. Muether, J. V. Fesko, and D. Blair Smith (Crossway).
• “Van Til and Analytic Philosophy,” forthcoming in Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him: Essays in the Van Til Tradition, ed. Bradley G. Green (Wipf & Stock).
  • A preprint version is available here.
• “Van Til Versus the Matrix,” in The Future of Reformed Apologetics: Collected Essays on Applying Van Til’s Apologetic Method to a New Generation (Westminster Seminary Press, 2024).
• “Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom: Incompatibilism versus Compatibilism,” forthcoming in Chosen Not for Good in Me: Unconditional Election in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective, ed. David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson (Crossway).
• “Evangelizing Fallen People: Apologetics and the Doctrine of Sin,” in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Human Corruption in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective, ed. David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson (Crossway, 2024).
• “Whence This Evil? Toward a Biblical Theodicy,” in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim: Human Corruption in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective, ed. David Gibson and Jonathan Gibson (Crossway, 2024).
• “Seeming Is Believing? An Exploration of Doxastic Responses to the Christological Paradox,” in Paradox and Contradiction in Theology, ed. Jonathan C. Rutledge (Routledge, 2023).
• “John Calvin,” in T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil, ed. Matthias Grebe and Johannes Grössl (Bloomsbury, 2023).
• “Election, Grace, and Justice: Analyzing an Aporetic Tetrad,” in T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology, ed. James M. Arcadi and James T. Turner, Jr. (Bloomsbury, 2021).
• “‘May It Have Happened Lord!’ Open Theism and Past-Directed Prayers,” in Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism, ed. Benjamin H. Arbour (Routledge, 2018).
  • A draft version is available here.
• “Calvinism and the First Sin,” in Calvinism and the Problem of Evil, ed. David E. Alexander and Daniel M. Johnson (Wipf & Stock, 2016).
• “Presuppositionalism and Frame’s Epistemology,” in Speaking the Truth in Love: The Theology of John M. Frame, ed. John J. Hughes (P&R, 2009), 431-459.
  • A defense of Frame’s epistemology and presuppositionalism, with some concrete apologetic application; reproduced here with permission of P&R Publishing Co., PO Box 817, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865.

Conference Papers

• “Van Til Versus the Matrix: A Van Tilian Response to the Simulation Hypothesis,” presented at the conference Van Til and the Future of Reformed Apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA, March 1, 2023.
• “A Four-Case Defense of the Authorial Model of Divine Providence,” presented at the First Carolina Analytic Theology Workshop, Anderson, SC, May 21, 2022.
• “Positive Mysterianism Undefeated: A Response to Dale Tuggy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, San Francisco, CA, November 18, 2011.
• “The Lord of Non-Contradiction: An Argument for God from Logic,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, Atlanta, GA, November 17, 2010.

Other Writings

• Various articles for The Gospel Coalition
• Various articles for Ligonier’s Tabletalk magazine
• “A Response to W. Gary Crampton” (2010).
  • A response to Gary Crampton’s review of my book.
• “Andrew McGowan on Inerrancy” (2008).
  • A critique of chapter 4 of McGowan’s The Divine Spiration of Scripture.
• “The Theistic Preconditions of Knowledge: A Thumbnail Sketch” (2006).
  • A brief defence of one of the distinctive claims of Van Tilian apologists.
• “Comments on John Johnson’s Response to Frame & Hays” (2006).
  • Some comments on Johnson’s article in the Global Journal of Classical Theology.
• “Van Til’s Serious Trinitarian Theology” (2005).
  • A guest post on Triablogue in defence of Van Til’s understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity. (The title is a lame reference to Triablogue’s original tagline: “Serious Trinitarian Theology”.)
• “Van Til FEM (Frequently Encountered Misconceptions)” (2004).
  • A document providing summary responses to the most frequently encountered misconceptions of Cornelius Van Til’s philosophy, theology, and apologetics.
• “Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga: A Brief Comparison” (2001).
  • Originally posted to the reformed-epistemology discussion group in July 2001, in response to a query about the main areas of agreement and disagreement between these two Christian thinkers.
• “Secular Responses to the Problem of Induction” (2000).
  • Originally written as an assignment for a course in systematic logic, this essay examines the most sophisticated secular responses to Hume’s skepticism regarding induction and concludes that all fail to provide a satisfactory account for how our inductive inferences can be warranted.