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Of Monsters and Men: A Spectrum View of the Imago Dei
Religions, 2023 I explore the view that the imago Dei is essential to us as humans but accidental to us as persons. To image God is to resemble God, and resemblance comes in degrees.
C. A. McIntosh
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Why God allows undeserved horrendous evil [PDF]
Religious Studies, 2021 AbstractI defend a new version of the non-identity theodicy. After presenting the theodicy, I reply to a series of objections. I then argue that my approach improves upon similar approaches in the literature.
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil vs. Sterba’s Problem of Specificity: Which Is the Real Problem?
Religions, 2022 In 2019 the noted ethicist and political philosopher James Sterba published a new deductive version of the argument from the problem of evil to the conclusion that an Anselmian God does not exist.
Michael S. Jones
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Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023 The topic of court criticism coupled with severe warnings about the dangers of a royal dictator or tyrant was well represented in medieval and early modern literature.
Albrecht Classen
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will
Religions, 2022 James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
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Umjetnost Riječi, 2021 This paper analyses the motif of “the naked person” in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s early work. Epic tales which belong to the so called “labour camp prose”, such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1959) and The Cancer Ward (1968), stand out in the ...
Natalia Kovtun, Natalya Klimovich
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Can God create humans with free will who never commit evil?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Can an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God create humans with free will without the capacity to commit evil? Scholars have taken opposite positions on the contentious problem.
Lee Pham Thai, Jerry Pillay
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Divine exultation and agony in the face of evil, a creation theodicy of divine restraint
Acta Theologica, 2013 Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living.
R. Potgieter
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Slow Death and Key Workers: The Ordinary Crisis of Waste Work During the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article examines the experiences of waste workers in Glasgow during the COVID‐19 pandemic to show how the everyday operations of the UK waste industry push bodies and infrastructures towards collapse. Drawing on interviews with waste workers, and Lauren Berlant's concepts of ‘slow death’ and the ‘crisis ordinary’, it argues that ...
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 491-502, April 2026.Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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