Resisting Desire: Models of Christ’s Temptations

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  • Jonathan Hill University of Exeter

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https://doi.org/10.69574/aejpr.v2i1.51853

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.

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2025-05-19

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Hill, J. (2025). Resisting Desire: Models of Christ’s Temptations. AGATHEOS – European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2(1), 4–25. https://doi.org/10.69574/aejpr.v2i1.51853

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

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