Fluctuating maximal God, the problem of inconsistent evil, and spacetime changes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20311608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asha Lancaster-Thomas (0000-0002-7054-4842, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S96-S108 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412522000737 |
| OpenAlex | W4312125885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
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 god can be compatible with the inconsistent dispersion of evil in the world. It is founded on the observation that evil is distributed neither equally nor fairly across time, space, and individuals. I distinguish between temporally inconsistent, spatially inconsistent, and interpersonally inconsistent evil and argue that the fluctuating maximal God thesis can account for all types of inconsistent evil if God fluctuates not only through time but also through space
Epistemology · Immutability · Physics · Problem of Evil · Space (punctuation) · Spacetime · Theology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |