A Mea Culpa for The Felix Culpa? A Greater Goods Response to the Problems of Evil and Hell

In this paper I want to develop a particular kind of greater-good response to the problems of evil and hell, one which hence can serve as a backup plan should the free will defense not satisfy. Ultimately, this response will appear to belong to several traditions in theodicy. Like all greater-goods views, this one relies on explaining the existence of evil in terms of the greater goods that come out of it. Among these goods are the greater goods of Incarnation and Atonement, their respective goodness consisting in large part in the higher-order divine good of glorifying God through the display of divine virtue.

Zwölf Predigten und Betrachtungen über mehrere der wichtigsten heilswahrheiten : insbesondere über das Verhältnis der Menschwerdung des Sohnes Gottes zu unsrer Erlösung /

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The gospel of reconciliation, or at-one-ment,

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S. Anselmi archiepiscopi cantuariensis Cur Deus homo? Libri duo.

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Die christliche versöhnungslehre.

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Philosophisch-exegetische Untersuchungen über die Lehre von der Versöhnung der Menschen mit Gott als ein neuer Beytrag zur endlichen Entscheidung der dogmatischen Streitfragen welche sich auf diese Lehre beziehen.

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Die Heilsbedeutung des Todes Christi nach der Darstellung des Apostels Pauli /

Vita.

The Vicarious sacrifice : grounded in principles of universal obligation /

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The blood of the cross /

Includes bibliographical references.

Two dissertations on sacrifices : the first on all the sacrifices of the Jews, with remarks on some of those of the heathens ; the second on the sacrifice of Christ, in both which the general doctrine of the Christian church on these subjects is defended against the Socinians /

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Die Grundlage des evangelischen Pietismus : oder, Die Lehren von Adams Fall, der Erbsünde und dem Opfer Christi. Nach Gründen der heiligen Schrift geprüft, mit den Ansichten der christlichen Kirche der ersten drei Jahrhunderte verglichen und nach ihrem Gebrauche für die christliche Theologie beurtheilt /

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Dissertations upon several fundamental articles of Christian theology /

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The consistency of the divine conduct in revealing the doctrines of Redemption : being the Hulsean lectures for the year 1841 /

Vol. 2 has subtitle: "Part the second. Being the Hulsean lectures for the year 1842".

Two dissertations on sacrifices : the first, On all the sacrifices of the Jews ... ; the second, On the sacrifice of Christ ...

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De mortis Jesu Christi fine salutari ac vi sacrificali peculiari /

Includes bibliographical references.