Felony Murder and Legal Analogies for Penal Substitution
In this brief paper I suggest that felony murder might be helpfully added to William Lane Craig's ensemble of legal analogies for penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). The upshot of including it is that Craig becomes enabled to dodge a worry raised by Oliver Crisp about imputing serious crimes...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2025, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-71 |
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| Summary: | In this brief paper I suggest that felony murder might be helpfully added to William Lane Craig's ensemble of legal analogies for penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). The upshot of including it is that Craig becomes enabled to dodge a worry raised by Oliver Crisp about imputing serious crimes to personally innocent individuals. However, I also point out that there could be issues with this move which are more trouble than they are worth. So, I conclude by proposing that Craig might be best served by either revising his view of retributivism or becoming a nonnecessitarian about the atonement. |
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| ISSN: | 2640-2580 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc20252716 |
