Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: I propose a categorisation of models of Christ’s temptations. The main division is between models according to which he felt a desire to perform sub-optimal acts (“internalism”), and models according to which he did not (“externalism”). Most analytic theologians today are internalists. I examine different varieties of internalism and argue that they all have serious problems, which do not apply to externalism. I conclude that externalism emerges as the strongest model.
Source: Agatheos :
Author: Jonathan Hill
Institution: University of Exeter
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4410487106