E.J. Lowe’s Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology

Mihretu P. Guta is 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 philosophy of neuroscience.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.

• 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.