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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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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

Religions, 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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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?

Religions, 2022
This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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The Problem of Evil, Greater Good, and the Moral Objection [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2021
Greater Good Theodicies are among the main responses to the problem of evil. These theodicies look for a greater good that can explain the consistency of the existence of evils and the existence of the omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good God.
Seyyed Mohsen Eslami, Mohammad Saeedimehr   +1 more
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Colat alius Deum, alius Iovem: Tertullian, Freedom of Religion (libertas religionis) and Religious Pluralism [PDF]

Edinost in Dialog, 2022
This paper analyses Tertullian’s innovative syntagm “religious freedom” (libertas religionis) from several perspectives, presenting the historical and literary context that enabled the Carthaginian thinker to coin this idea.
Jan Dominik Bogataj
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A Dilemma for Sterba

Religions, 2022
James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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Comparative study of Oblique action in Iranian, French, and Egyptian law, focusing on Iranian law [PDF]

پژوهش‌نامه حقوق اسلامی, 2022
Oblique action is an exception to the principle of the relative effect of the contract, which permits unsecured creditors or collateralized creditors whose collateral is not worth as much as their claim, under certain conditions, to interfere with the ...
Behzad Jeihouni, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Alavi   +1 more
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Major Gaps in Sterba’s New Atheological Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
In this essay, I first offer several scenarios where Sterba’s argument based on the Pauline Principle fails: specifically, one in which we all consent to living an earthly life in some prior existence (prior-consent scenario), one in which the victims ...
Robin Collins
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Sterba’s Logical Argument from Evil and the God Who Walks Away from Omelas

Religions, 2022
The logical argument from evil, generally thought to have been defused by Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense, has been reinvigorated by James Sterba’s exposition and defense of a new version of the argument that draws on recent work in moral philosophy.
Erik J. Wielenberg
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The Reception of the Pauline Letters and the Formation of the Canonical Principle in Origen of Alexandria

Scrinium, 2010
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