Array
(
    [fullTitle] => A Possible-Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer
    [abstract] => If the thing he prays for doesn’t happen, then that is one more proof that petitionary prayers don’t work; if it does happen, he will, of course, be able to see some of the physical causes which led up to it, and `therefore it would have happened anyway’, and thus a granted prayer becomes just as good a proof as a denied one that prayers are ineffective. -- CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
    [authors] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [givenName] => Ryan Matthew
                    [affiliation] => Baylor Univeristy
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [givenName] => Bradley
                    [affiliation] => Baylor University
                )

        )

    [keywords] => Array
        (
        )

    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v9i1.1856
    [datePublished] => 2017-05-03
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/1856/version/413/1504
)
"Loading..."

A Possible-Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer

Ryan Matthew
Baylor Univeristy

Bradley
Baylor University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i1.1856

Abstract

If the thing he prays for doesn’t happen, then that is one more proof that petitionary prayers don’t work; if it does happen, he will, of course, be able to see some of the physical causes which led up to it, and `therefore it would have happened anyway’, and thus a granted prayer becomes just as good a proof as a denied one that prayers are ineffective. -- CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Keywords:

Download PDF