The Topography Of Divine Love: A Response To Jeff Jordan

[Alex_Smith]

Jeff Jordan has recently challenged the idea, widely accepted among theistic philosophers, that “God’s love must be maximally extended and equally intense.”

By way of a response, I suggest a way to sidestep Jordan’s argument entirely and then try to show that his own argument is multiply flawed. I thus conclude that his challenge is unsuccessful.

Talbott’s article will be published in the next issue of Faith and Philosophy, but he has also made it available on his website:
willamette.edu/~ttalbott/Jor … ersion.pdf

[Cindy_Skillman]

Okay I’m going to go an have a look even though my DH is watching the latest Bond, and it’s rather distracting.

But who is Jeff Jordan?

[Alex_Smith]

I assume this is him infidels.org/library/modern/ … n/bio.html

[Cindy_Skillman]

Things are exploding. Surely it can’t last much longer . . .

[Cindy_Skillman]

Great paper by Thomas Talbott – I really do love his writing.

[tomtalbott]

Unfortunately, I removed the link to this paper when I discovered a confusion in the paper that I needed to correct, and I was unaware that people here had been referencing it. So here is a working link to my personal website and a typescript copy of the paper, which was published in the July, 2013, issue of Faith and Philosophy:

willamette.edu/~ttalbott/Jordan-revised.pdf

Sorry for any difficulties I may have inadvertently created in this matter.

-Tom