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Divine Morality or Divine Love? On Sterba’s New Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2023
In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence.
Jonathan C. Rutledge
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Evil Prevention Requirements and the God of Theism

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The central argument of James Sterba’s “Is a Good God Logically Possible?” relies crucially on the notion that a good God would have to abide by various evil prevention requirements.
Adam Noel Wood
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 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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Creator Theology and Sterba’s Argument From Evil

open access: yesReligions, 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

open access: yesReligions, 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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An Ethics without God That Is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution

open access: yesReligions
Building on my recent argument that an all-good, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, I explore what grounding ethics can have without the God of traditional theism.
James P. Sterba
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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this paper, I respond to James Sterba’s recent book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’ I show that Sterba concludes that God is not logically possible by ignoring three important issues: (a) the different functions of leeway indeterminism (and the ...
Jacqueline Mariña
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Pattern of Relapse and Treatment Response in WNT-Activated Medulloblastoma

open access: yesCell Reports Medicine, 2020
Summary: Over the past decade, wingless-activated (WNT) medulloblastoma has been identified as a candidate for therapy de-escalation based on excellent survival; however, a paucity of relapses has precluded additional analyses of markers of relapse.
Liana Nobre   +60 more
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Pharmacokinetics of hydroxychloroquine in paediatric lupus: data from a novel, direct-to-family clinical trial [PDF]

open access: yesLupus Science and Medicine, 2022
Objective Determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) and exposure–response of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ) in paediatric SLE (pSLE).Methods We conducted an exploratory phase 2, direct-to-family trial.
E Schmitt   +534 more
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

open access: yesReligions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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