Plantinga's Defence and His Theodicy are Incompatible

Plantinga's Defence and His Theodicy are Incompatible

By Dr. Paul Franks and Dr. Richard Davis

In this paper, we attempt to show that if Plantinga’s free will defence succeeds, his O Felix Culpa theodicy fails. For if every creaturely essence suffers from transworld depravity, then given that Jesus has a creaturely essence (as we attempt to show), it follows that Incarnation and Atonement worlds cannot be actualized by God, in which case we have anything but a felix culpa.

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ISBN/ISSN: 0415793513

Pages: 202-223

Chapter in: Does God Matter? Essays on the Axiological Consequences of Theism

Published in: 2018

Publisher: Routledge