On the Coherence of Desiring Eternal Separation from God
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https://doi.org/10.69574/aejpr.v2i1.24853Keywords:
Free Will Theodicy, Hell, Afterlife, Infinite Opportunity, GodAbstract
The present paper examines whether the following claim is coherent: some persons genuinely desire an afterlife apart from God. I examine, and find implausible, two arguments designed to show the claim incoherent. I then examine, and find wanting, two arguments designed to lend some plausibility to the claim. To supply what is lacking in the foregoing arguments, I explicate and endorse a key feature of Charles Williams’s romantic theology: progressive volitional impotence. To close, I address some objections.
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