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

Religions, 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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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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Evil Prevention Requirements and the God of Theism

Religions, 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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Sterba’s Argument From Evil and Objections to Divine Command Theory

Religions
This paper will respond to James Sterba’s paper “An Ethics without God That is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution”. In his paper, Sterba argues that God cannot be the source of morality.
Caleb Cumberland
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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality

Religions
This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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Why Ethics Requires a God and Is Safer from Evolutionary Debunking Threats as a Result: A Reply to Sterba

Religions
Sterba has argued that ethics does not require God and that an atheistic objectivist ethics is compatible with an evolutionary account of our development.
Gerald K. Harrison
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Effects of NDURE on Timely Adjuvant Radiotherapy in HNSCC: Subgroup Analysis of an RCT. [PDF]

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In this subgroup analysis of a randomized clinical trial of 145 patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, the enhanced navigation‐based intervention NDURE improved initiation of timely postoperative radiation therapy (PORT) relative to usual care across nearly all demographic and clinical subgroups, including patients with ...
Hughes JM, Kistner-Griffin E, DeMass R, Chera BS, Sterba KR, Hill EG, McCay J, Newman JG, Albergotti WG, Kejner AE, Skoner JM, Harper JL, Kaczmar J, Lee BJ, Zimmerman SA, Warren GW, Alberg AJ, Calhoun EA, Nussenbaum B, Hughes-Halbert C, Graboyes EM.   +20 more
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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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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 Thomistic Dissolution of the Logical Problem of Evil

Religions, 2021
In his book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’, James Sterba argues that the existence of much of the evil to be found in the world is logically incompatible with the existence of God.
Edward Feser
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