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How the Trinitarian God of Christianity Provides the Best Explanation for Objective Morality: Comparing the Metaethical Theories of James Sterba and Adam Lloyd Johnson

Religions
James Sterba recently presented arguments against theories which ground morality in God and attempted “to provide an account of the norms on which an ethics without God can be appropriately grounded ….” In particular, Sterba noted that “Robert Adams is ...
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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Reconciling the God of Traditional Theism with the World’s Evils

Religions, 2020
Replying to James Sterba’s argument for the incompatibility of the world’s evils with the existence of the God of traditional theism, I argue for their compatibility, using the proposition that God has reasons for permitting these evils.
Robin Attfield
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A Response to James Sterba’s Problem of Evil through al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Understanding of Divine Action

Kocatepe İslami İlimler Dergisi
The problem of evil remains one of the most powerful philosophical objections to the existence of God, particularly concerning divine omnipotence, omniscience, and goodness.
Hande Nur Bozbuğa
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Effect of an Electronic Pill Bottle on Hydroxychloroquine Adherence in Pediatric Lupus: Results of a Novel Direct-to-Family Pilot Trial. [PDF]

ACR Open Rheumatol
Objective The objective of this study was to evaluate the preliminary effectiveness of an electronic pill bottle with automated reminders on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) adherence in children with pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (pSLE). Methods This was a self‐controlled, open label, direct‐to‐family pilot trial.
Randell RL, Schanberg LE, Beard C, Phillips T, Hornik CP, Cohen-Wolkowiez M, Balevic SJ, with the CARRA Registry investigators.   +7 more
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Modeling the normal:abnormal spectrum of early childhood internalizing behaviors: A clinical-developmental approach for the Multidimensional Assessment Profiles Internalizing Dimensions. [PDF]

Int J Methods Psychiatr Res, 2023
Abstract Background We expanded the Multidimensional Assessment Profiles (MAPS) Scales developmental specification model to characterize the normal:abnormal spectrum of internalizing (anxious and depressive) behaviors in early childhood via the MAPS‐Internalizing (MAPS‐INT) scale. Methods The MAPS‐INT item pool was generated based on clinical expertise
Wakschlag LS, Sherlock P, Blackwell CK, Burns JL, Krogh-Jespersen S, Gershon RC, Cella D, Buss KA, Luby JL.   +8 more
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Racial Disparities and Achievement of the Low Lupus Disease Activity State: A CARRA Registry Study. [PDF]

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
Objective Differential disease control may contribute to racial disparities in outcomes of childhood‐onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE). We evaluated associations of race and individual‐ or neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDoH) with achievement of low lupus disease activity state (LLDAS), a clinically relevant treatment target.
Soulsby WD, Olveda R, He J, Berbert L, Weller E, Barbour KE, Greenlund KJ, Schanberg LE, von Scheven E, Hersh A, Son MBF, Chang J, Knight A, CARRA Registry Investigators.   +13 more
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Comparative Effectiveness of a Second Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Versus a Non-Tumor Necrosis Factor Biologic in the Treatment of Patients With Polyarticular-Course Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. [PDF]

Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)
Objective The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a second tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi) versus a non‐TNFi biologic following discontinuation of a TNFi for patients with polyarticular‐course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA).
Mannion ML, Amin S, Balevic S, Chang ML, Correll CK, Kearsley-Fleet L, Hyrich KL, Beukelman T, Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Investigators and the UK Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Biologics Register Investigators.   +8 more
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Logical Argument from Evil and Theism

Religions, 2022
The article argues that the logical argument from evil is dead, and the new version presented by James Sterba cannot resurrect it. In the first part, I say that the logical argument from evil is dead either because, in the version given by Mackie, it was
Andrea Aguti
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Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature

Religions, 2022
Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
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Is the God of Traditional Theism Logically Compatible with All the Evil in the World?

, 2022
Is the God of traditional theism logically incompatible with all the evil in the world? In his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? (Palgrave paperback, 2019) James Sterba argues that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with ...

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