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Salvation in heaven?

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journal contribution
posted on 2024-06-13, 07:59 authored by Y Nagasawa, G Oppy, N Trakakis
The aim of this paper is to examine the difficulties that belief in a paradisiacal afterlife creates for orthodox theists. In particular, we consider the difficulties that arise when one asks whether there is freedom in Heaven, i.e., whether the denizens of Heaven have libertarian freedom of action. Our main contention is that this 'Problem of Heaven' makes serious difficulties for proponents of free will theodicies and for proponents of free will defences against arguments from evil.

History

Journal

Philosophical papers

Volume

33

Pagination

97-119

Location

London, England

ISSN

1996-8523

eISSN

0556-8641

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2004, Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Publisher

Routledge

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