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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche. [PDF]

Psychol Psychother
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Frastali AM, Rawal A.
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A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World

Religions, 2023
James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these ...
Christopher J. Insole
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Why God Cannot Do What Sterba Wants

Religions, 2022
Sterba argues that if God existed, God would allow lower-level evils and suffering but should and would prevent all significant and horrendous evils. Since such serious evils do exist, God does not exist. In reply, I argue that in creating a Sterba world,
Stephen T. Davis
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A Compensatory Response to the Problem of Evil

Religions, 2021
In this essay, I affirm the univocity thesis while discussing some alternative positions that avoid the problem of evil by rejecting the univocity thesis.
Michael Douglas Beaty
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2021
In this article, I offer a response to James P. Sterba’s moral argument for the non-existence of God. Sterba applies to God the so-called Pauline Principle that it is not permissible to do evil in order that good may come.
Elizabeth Burns
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The Problem of Evil and God’s Moral Standing: A Rejoinder to James Sterba

Religions, 2022
This article is a rejoinder to James Sterba’s response to my previous article on the topic of his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible given the amount of horrendous evil in the world. If God did
J. Brian Huffling
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Creator Theology and Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I reformulate Sterba’s argument from evil and consider the various ways theists might respond to it. There are two basic families of responses. On the one hand, theists can deny that God, as a perfect being, needs to act in accordance with
Joe Milburn
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Divine Omnipotence, Divine Sovereignty and Moral Constraints on the Prevention of Evil: A Reply to Sterba

Religions, 2022
In Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba uses the analogy of a just political state to develop evil-prevention principles he thinks a good God would follow.
Eric Reitan
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Heaven and the Goodness of God

Religions, 2021
In this essay, I argue that we should take fully seriously the doctrine of heaven when dealing with the problem of evil in our world. The hope of heaven is integral to Christian theism so it cannot be neglected in any substantive discussion of the ...
Jerry L. Walls
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God and the Playpen: On the Feasibility of Morally Better Worlds

Religions, 2021
According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with free creatures, and hence a world with moral goodness, without allowing for the possibility of evil.
Cheryl K. Chen
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