This article suggest that belief in absolute private property rights is a type of dispossession what rightfully belongs to God and, by extension, the people God. The first section this essay address question so often ignored discussions rights: how did some come be owners place, while others own nothing but their bodies and its labor? Then look into history dispossession. second explained away ...

The claim of the Easter Proclamation that original sin is a “happy fall” (felix culpa) earned us Incarnation Son God seems to virtually contain elements for developing “Greater Theodicy,” according which has been permitted by “in order to” obtain some greater goods. In this paper I introduce four ways in good theodicies can be drawn from felix culpa claim: two “supralapsarian” (a deterministic ...

This is the text of 2022 Boyle Lecture. After some acknowledgements, it introduces theological problem suffering nonhuman creatures in natural world as described by evolutionary science. It sets aside neo-Cartesian objection that this should not be considered real. The lecture then considers, and initially rejects, theodicies based on form fall event. An account offered premise Darwinian evolut...

Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with famous free will defense has not succeeded solving logical problem evil. However, is alone disputing this generally accepted view philosophy religion. D. Z. Phillips (1934–2006) argued evil been solved and he further holds it...

The recent deaths of two children from parental decisions to rely on faith healing rather than medical treatment raises fundamental questions about the extent and limits of religious liberty in a liberal democratic society. This essay seeks to identify and critically examine three central issues internal to the ethics of religious communities that engage in faith healing regarding children: (1)...

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Social Origins of Distress and Disease (henceforth Social Origins) is the most important book to be written in medical anthropology in a long time. The book is stimulating, passionate, sophisticated, balanced and theoretically up-to-date. It sets out an inspiring agenda for the anthropological study of suffering. It raises profound questions about psychic and physical pain, spiritual embodiment...

In this paper, I propose a new response to a particular instance of the problem of evil: the problem of animal suffering. My solution, in brief, is that the rational theist may argue, justifiably, that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God would not allow gratuitous animal suffering to occur, and, therefore, all instances of animal suffering that are encountered are not instanc...

In this brief reply to Walls’ challenging critique, I try to do two things: first, clarify the most fundamental point on which I think Walls and I disagree, and second, argue that, as surprising as it may first appear, Walls’ free will theodicy of hell requires that God interfere with human freedom in inappropriate ways. For a number of years now I have considered Jerry Walls to be one of my be...