The coherence of equivocal penal substitution: modern and scholastic voices
In this contribution we investigate the conceptual coherence of penal substitution and its moral validity. After assessing two opposing modern contributions (Stevin Porter and Mark Murphy), we turn to Reformed and medieval scholasticism (Owen, Van Mastricht, and Duns Scotus). This scholastic manoeuv...
| Published in: | International journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2019]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Murphy, Mark C. 1968-
/ Porter, Steven L. 1970-
/ Sin
/ Punishment
/ Forgiveness of sins
/ Scholasticism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Owen
B Coherence B Scholasticism B Scotus B Representative deservedness B Penal Substitution |
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| Summary: | In this contribution we investigate the conceptual coherence of penal substitution and its moral validity. After assessing two opposing modern contributions (Stevin Porter and Mark Murphy), we turn to Reformed and medieval scholasticism (Owen, Van Mastricht, and Duns Scotus). This scholastic manoeuvre sheds additional light on the analytic questions at issue. Following Owen and Scotus in their use of a relational analysis of guilt and its punishment, we argue that penal substitution is conceptually and morally coherent, albeit not univocally vis-à-vis ordinary punishment. Absent from the case of substitution is personal deservedness; herein we follow Murphy. However, this leaves open the conceptual possibility of representative deservedness (pace Murphy). |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-019-09709-y |