Aquinas and Gregory the Great on the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 5 (2018)
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I defend a solution to the puzzle of petitionary prayer based on some ideas of Aquinas, Gregory the Great, and contemporary desert theorists. I then address a series of objections. Along the way broader issues about the nature of desert, what is required for an action to have a point, and what is required for a puzzle to have a solution are discussed.

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10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.015

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Desert.Owen McLeod - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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