Asha Lancaster-Thomas

Biographic Data

ID1098244
NAMEAsha Lancaster-Thomas
GIVEN NAMESAsha
FAMILY NAMELancaster-Thomas
SIGNATURELANCASTER-THOMAS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-7054-4842
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Goodness and Godness in Cosmic Agapism

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEReligions2025References: 7

    This paper concerns itself with postulating the necessity of God for Good, in answer to the titular question posed in this edition: "Is an Ethics without God Possible?". To achieve this end, I consider a specific pantheistic ethic centered on Murdochian love and evaluate a potential contradictory element to this brand of ethic, while also highlighting several important terminological considerations integral to the debate concerning objective mora…

  • Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEReligious Studies2023

    The fluctuating maximal God thesis, developed by Jeffrey et al., offers a conception of God that removes the characteristic of divine immutability, allowing the degrees of God's great-making properties to change over time. This god-concept provides a substantial advantage over the ‘static’ maximal God thesis proposed by Yujin Nagasawa if it can adequately sidestep what I call ‘the problem of inconsistent evil’. This problem questions how a static…

  • Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEReligions2023References: 21

    James Sterba has recently constructed a new and compelling logical problem of evil that rejects Plantinga's free-will defense and employs the concept of significant freedom and the Pauline Principle to demonstrate an incompatibility between the existence of horrendous evil and the God of classical monotheism. In response, Jerry L. Walls, among others, has claimed that the doctrine of heaven can explain why God is justified in permitting horrendou…

  • Fluctuating maximal God

    Open AccessAnne Jeffrey, Asha Lancaster-Thomas et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for…2020

    This paper explores a variety of perfect being theism that combines Yujin Nagasawa’s maximal God thesis with the view that God is not atemporal. We argue that the original maximal God thesis still implicitly relies on a “static” view of divine perfections. Instead, following the recent re-evaluation of divine immutability by analytic philosophers, we propose that thinking of divine great-making properties (omnipotence, omniscience etc.) as fluctu…

  • Truth, consequences, and the Evil-god challenge

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEReligious Studies2020

    In her 2016 article in Religious Studies , Anastasia Scrutton attempts to undermine Stephen Law's Evil-god challenge by arguing that belief in a good god is more justified than belief in an evil god, despite the alethic similarity of the two hypotheses. Drawing on the epistemological theory of pragmatic encroachment, Scrutton claims that is it more reasonable to believe in a benevolent deity than a malevolent one because belief in the latter (i) …

  • The Evil‐god challenge Part II

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2018Cited by: 2References: 16

    The Evil‐god challenge attempts to undermine classical monotheism by arguing that because the existence of an evil god is similar in reasonableness to the existence of a good god, the onus is on the theist to justify their belief in the latter over the former. In the Part I paper, I defined the Evil‐god challenge, distinguished between several types of Evil‐god challenge, and presented its history and recent developments. In this paper, I describ…

  • The Evil-god challenge part I

    Open AccessAsha Lancaster-ThomasARTICLEPhilosophy Compass2018Cited by: 3References: 12

    The Evil-god challenge has enjoyed a flurry of attention after its resurrection in Stephen Law's, paper of the same name. Intended to undermine classical monotheism, the Evil-god challenge rests on the claim that the existence of all-powerful, all-knowing, all-evil god (Evil-god) is roughly as likely as the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good god (Good-god). The onus is then placed on those who believe in Good-god to explain why t…