OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Christian physicalism and the biblical argument for dualism	18
Faith: intention to form theistic beliefs	9
Analytic Theology and the academic study of Religion, by William Wood. Oxford University Press, 2021. 299 pages, $100.00 (hb)	5
Simply providential: a Thomistic response to Schmid’s providential collapse argument against classical theism	4
Minding creation: theological panpsychism and the doctrine of creation	4
Modal appearances and the modal ontological argument	3
The image of God: the problem of evil and the problem of mourning (Eleonore Stump) publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 432 pp, $130.00	3
Abhinavagupta, the hard problem of consciousness, and the moral grounding problem	2
An inexplicably good argument for causal finitism	2
Purpose in the Universe: the Moral and metaphysical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism, by Timothy Mulgan. Oxford University Press, 2015. 435 pp. $100 (hb), $31.95 (pb)	2
Mystical ineffability: a nonconceptual theory	2
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary. Mikel Burley. Bloomsbury, 2020. 245pp., $26.95 (pb.)	2
Simon Kittle and Georg Gasser, eds. The Divine Nature: personal and A-Personal perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2022. Viii + 347pp. $170.00 (hc), $39.71 (ebook)	2
Moral substitution reimagined	1
Incompatible and incomparable perfections: a new argument against perfect being theism	1
God’s necessary existence: a thomistic perspective	1
Editorial preface	1
On the metaphysics of the incarnation	1
Does moral anti-theodicy beg the question?	1
A philosophical defence of limited foreknowledge open theism	1
An epistemological challenge to ontological bruteness	1
Miraculosity claims as inferences to the best explanation: why reasoning about miracles must be abductive	1
Review of Rik peels, Life Without God	1
The negative theology of absolute infinity: Cantor, mathematics, and humility	1
Another Wittgensteinian response to the evolutionary argument against naturalism	1

Moral Normativity: Naturalism vs. Theism	1
Hopeful universalism and the goodness of God: a fittingness approach	1
The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews, by Kirk Lougheed. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020, 279 pp, $109.99 (hb)	1
Unamuno and the Makropulos Debate	1
A New Moral Argument for the existence of God	0
Randy Ramal: On philosophy, intelligibility, and the ordinary: going the bloody hard way	0
Voices from the edge: Centring marginalized perspectives in analytic theology, edited by Michelle Panchuk and Michael Rea, Oxford University Press, 2020, 236 pp, $80.00 (hb)	0
The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response	0
Survival, freedom, urge and the absolute: on an antinomy in the subject	0
On the incoherence of Molinism: incompatibility of the single act of will with divine providence	0
Oppy on arguments and worldviews: an internal critique	0
Matthew Benton and Jonathan Kvanvig, eds., Religious Disagreement and Pluralism. Oxford University Press, 2022, 304 pp., $85.00 (hc)	0
Counting to infinity, successive addition, and the length of the past	0
Time, atemporal existence, and divine temporal consciousness: a bimodalist account for divine consciousness	0
Book Symposium: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism. Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $98.00	0
“Resuscitating the Common Consent Argument for Theism”	0
Religious conversion, philosophy, and social science	0
Correction to: Maximal possessiveness: A serious flaw in the evil God challenge	0
Strategies for stage II of cosmological arguments	0
Evil as privation: its true meaning and import	0
God, suffering, and the value of free will. Laura W. Ekstrom. Oxford University Press, 2021. 248 pp., $99.95 (hc.)	0
Faith and resilience	0
Book Symposium: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism. Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $98.00	0
The contradictory god thesis and non-dialetheic mystical contradictory theism	0
Not a Body: the Catalyst of St. Augustine’s Intellectual Conversion in the Books of the Platonists	0
Omnisubjectivity: an essay on God and Subjectivity. Linda Zagzebski. Oxford University Press, 2023, x and 209 pp, $35 (hrd)	0
Malebranche on Space, Time, and Divine Simplicity	0
Editorial preface	0
The premortalist free will defense	0
The Shoah and the neighbor: the Holocaust as a trauma of Western thought and Levinas's "post-traumatic" philosophy	0
God and gratuitous evil: Between the rock and the hard place	0
Why the debunking threat won’t go away	0
Is there something of divinity regarding Kant’s account of reason?	0
Review: Draper, Current Controversies in Philosophy of Religion	0
Editorial preface	0
Book Symposium: Patrick Todd, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 224 pp. $80.00	0
Book Symposium: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism. Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $98.00	0
What could Jesus do?	0
Hearing God speak? Debunking arguments and everyday religious experiences	0
Against the aloneness argument	0
Moral knowledge: theism vs. Naturalism	0
Spiritual oneness and the cognitive science of religion	0
Review of Aribiah Attoe (2022) groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics. Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover $64.99 USD	0
An open theist critique of Peels’ account of divine repentance	0
The aloneness argument: an aspectival response	0
The two parts of Kant’s moral religion	0
Future contingency, future indeterminacy, and grounding: comments on Todd	0
God’s absolute immutability vis-a-vis his real relation with the world	0
The demonstrative use of names, and the divine-name co-reference debate	0
Fission theories of Original Guilt	0

God in the gap: rethinking divine gender and moving toward reconciliation	0
Yujin nagasawa, the problem of evil for atheists. Oxford university press, 2024, 252 pp., $100 (hardcover), open-access https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198901884.001.0001	0
On Being and Bonaventure: a Franciscan ontological argument	0
Are Plantinga’s theodicy and defense incompatible?	0
Book Symposium: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, God, purpose, and reality: a Euteleological understanding of Theism. Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $98.00	0
Adamson, Avicenna and God’s knowledge of particulars	0
Critical notice of Jerome Yehuda Gellman, The people, the Torah, the God: a neo-traditional jewish theology. Brookline, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2023. 156 pp. $129.00 (hc)	0
Interpreting the probabilities in Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism	0
Could Avicenna’s god remain within himself?: A reply to the Naṣīrian interpretation	0
On the incoherence of molinism: incompatibility of middle knowledge with divine immutability	0
Does agnosticism have positive evidence?	0
Book Symposium: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk, God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism. Oxford University Press, 2023. 224 pp. $98.00	0
Book symposium: Patrick Todd, The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 224 pp. $80.00	0
A Buddhist approach to moral knowledge without god	0
Adam Graves: The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur	0
Free will, transworld depravity, and divine omniscience	0
Neo-Cartesianism and the expanded problem of animal suffering	0
On Philip Goff’s case for agentive cosmopsychism	0
Perry Hendricks: skeptical theism. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023, 294 + xiii pp. $99.00 (ebook); $129.99 (hardcover)	0
The return of the positivist theory of religion	0
Revealing the counterfactuals: molinism, stubbornness, and deception	0
Swami Medhananda, Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Cosmopolitanism. Oxford University Press, 2022, 412 + ix pp. $99.00 (hc)	0
Leland Royce Harper: Multiverse deism: shifting perspectives of God and the world	0
Between knowledge and certainty: the grammatical duality in Wittgenstein’s view of religious belief	0
Are cosmological arguments good arguments?	0
Jerome Yehuda Gellman: Perfect goodness and the god of the Jews: a contemporary jewish theology	0
Editorial preface	0
Clare Carlisle: Spinoza’s Religion: a New Reading of the Ethics. Princeton University Press, 2021, 288 pp, $29.95 (hc)	0
Faith overcoming metaphysics: Gianni Vattimo and Thomas Aquinas on being	0
Descartes on intellectual joy and the intellectual love of god	0
Grounding, infinite regress, and the thomistic cosmological argument	0
Basic religious certainty and the new testament	0
Halvor Kvandal, God naturalized: epistemological reflections on theistic belief in light of the New Science of Religion. Springer, 2022, 204 + vii pp. $89.00 (e-book), $119.99 (hc),	0
Metaphors, religious language and linguistic expressibility	0
On the ethics of high stakes hide and go seek: a response to James Beilby	0
Critical notice of Christopher J. Insole: Kant and the Divine: from contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford University Press, 2020)	0
Artistic beauty and religious sublimity in literature: a Levinasian reproach of estheticism in light of Kant’s third Critique	0
Analytic Theology and the academic study of Religion, by William Wood. Oxford University Press, 2021. 299 pages, $100.00 (hb)	0
What is wrong with exclusivism? Religious exclusivism between epistemic overconfidence and epistemic humility	0
Arguing from cognitive science of religion: is religious belief debunked?	0
A fundamental flaw in the free will defence	0
Editorial preface	0
Narratives & spiritual meaning-making in mental disorder	0
Adams’ theory of goodness as Godlikeness amended	0
Love and Self-Sacrifice: Kierkegaard, Maimonides and the Poor Spouse Predicament	0
Maximal possessiveness: A serious flaw in the evil God challenge	0
Editorial preface	0
Power to forgive: interpersonal forgiveness from an analytical perspective on power	0
Correction to: A crucial distinctive author contact information	0
A crucial distinctive author contact information	0
‘Everybody would agree’ – a novel Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion	0
Book symposium: Patrick Todd, The open future: why future contingents are all false. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 224 pp. $80.00	0
A soul-making theodicy for animals?	0
Cognitivism about religious belief in later Wittgenstein	0
A moderate defense of the fall and original sin	0
The role of divine grace in Kant’s rational religion	0
The problem of the distribution of evil and a fluctuating maximal god	0
Getting tense about the atonement	0
Game theory and omniscience	0
Non-accidental piety: reliable reasoning and modally robust adherence to the divine will	0
Tyron Goldschmidt and Kenneth L. Pearce (eds.): Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics	0
Editorial Preface	0
Elucidating open theism	0
If Molinism is true, what can you do?	0
Moral knowledge and the existence of god	0
Editorial Preface	0
A reason for apatheism	0
The creation objection against timelessness fails	0
Andrew Loke’s indirect defence of the successive addition argument	0
Is it wrong for God to create persons? A response to Monaghan	0
Evil and maximal greatness	0
The problem of the unknown attributes	0
Editorial Preface	0
Perfecting agents	0
Future contingency, future indeterminacy, and grounding: comments on Todd	0
Editorial preface	0
Prior and Aquinas: propositions and the knowledge of a tensed reality	0
Reconsidering the Alien Doctor Analogy: a challenge to skeptical theism	0
Resurrecting van Inwagen’s simulacrum: a defense	0
Prolegomena to a Buddhist philosophy of religion	0