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Natural law is a deontological theory that is most commonly associated with St Thomas Aquinas, a theological ethicist and philosopher. The theory derives what is good and evil from the rational nature of hum...

Irrenaeus and Augustine both use free will to explain how an all-good, all-powerful God could allow evil in the world. Where they differ is in the role that free will plays. Irrenaeus' is a soul making theod...

Here are the main views on whether or not humans have free will:Hard Determinism: Our will and actions are completely controlled by external factors (God, the laws of nature and causation, etc). You can refe...

The teleological argument concerns itself with the ideas of purpose and regularity to argue for the existence of God. The argument is a posteriori, as it derives its evidence from observation of the natural ...

It is widely believed that Anselm wrote this argument as a prayer to God; Anselm wrote from the position of someone with ‘faith seeking understanding’, not of someone trying to logically prove God's existenc...