God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? <i>Religions</i> 14: 140
William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people to himself. For Craig, God’s moral goodness, best conceived in terms of righteousness, must also include God’s retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve the punishment the...
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| description | William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people to himself. For Craig, God’s moral goodness, best conceived in terms of righteousness, must also include God’s retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve the punishment they receive. My response is that Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither of which, I argue, Christian theists have good reason to affirm. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7301d36cdde24c55ad5604ede27abccd2023-11-19T12:46:27ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-09-01149120510.3390/rel14091205God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? <i>Religions</i> 14: 140Kevin Kinghorn0Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY 40390, USAWilliam Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people to himself. For Craig, God’s moral goodness, best conceived in terms of righteousness, must also include God’s retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve the punishment they receive. My response is that Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither of which, I argue, Christian theists have good reason to affirm.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/9/1205retributive justicedesertdivine goodnessrighteousnessdivine lovefinal value |
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| title | God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? <i>Religions</i> 14: 140 |
| title_full | God’s Moral Perfection as His Beneficent Love. Comment on Craig (2023). Is God’s Moral Perfection Reducible to His Love? <i>Religions</i> 14: 140 |
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