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1st Edition

E.J. Lowe’s Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology

Edited By Mihretu P. Guta, Eric LaRock Copyright 2027
320 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores how E.J. Lowe’s metaphysics relates to various issues in philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. Lowe’s views on ontological issues have direct implications for issues in philosophical theology as well as philosophy of religion. Lowe’s work is systematic in nature, and he built an extremely sophisticated ontological system in The Four-Category Ontology. The... Read more

Introduction- E. J. Lowe’s Life and Conception of Metaphysics Mihretu P. Guta  

Part I:  Lowe’s Ontology and God’s Existence  

1. Lowe and Augustine on God and Objects of Reason Katherin A. Rogers  

2. E. J. Lowe on Modal Knowledge and Divine Necessity Max Baker-Hytch 

Part II: Lowe’s Ontology, Divine Power, and Divine Temporality 

3. Lowe’s God and the Power to Create Graham Renz and John Heil 

4. Divine power and Divine Simplicity, Not So Simple Ben Page 

5. A God and the Absolute Theory of Time R.T. Mullins   

Part III: Lowe’s Ontology, Divine Causality and Dualism 

6.    Physical Causal Closure, Divine Causation, and Lowe’s Invisible Causes Matthew Owen and William Simpson 

7. Lowean Response to the Causal Closure Principle and the Doctrine of Creation Exnihilo Mihretu P. Guta 

8.  Arguing From Consciousness to God’s Existence Via Lowe’s Dualism Eric LaRock and Mostyn Jones 

Part IV: Lowe’s Ontology and Christology 

9. Craig’s Nominalism, the Incarnation, and Lowe’s Four-Category Ontology R Scott Smith 

10. Lowe at Lateran Alejandro Pérez.

Biography

Mihretu P. Guta is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics at Biola University, USA. He is the editor of Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties (Routledge, 2018). Taking Persons Seriously (with Scott Rae, Pickwick Publications, 2024) and Selfhood, Autism and Thought Insertion (with Sophie Gibb, Academic Imprint, 2021). His main research includes: metaphysics, philosophy of mind and the science of consciousness studies. 

Eric LaRock is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, USA. His primary research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience, and metaphysics.

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