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Justin Noia

Saint Louis University
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
  •  1
    Hyper-Annihilationism: A Compromise Between Universalism and Hellism
    Philosophia 1-13. forthcoming.
    Some argue that God’s love or mercy would save everyone; others argue that God’s justice or respect for human freedom demands damnation; and others argue that God would annihilate the lost. I present a new alternative, hyper-annihilationism, on which each view is correct. According to hyper-annihilationism, God hyper-will annihilate the lost; the eschaton is such that all are saved; and it is possible that there are now people enduring everlasting conscious torment.
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    In the Beatific Vision, both Freedom and Necessity
    TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 2 (2). 2018.
    According to Aquinas, the souls in heaven (hereafter, the blessed) are both necessitated (i.e., determined) and free in their choice to love God. But if Aquinas is right, it may seem that we cannot give an incompatibilist account of the freedom of the blessed to love God. Roughly put, incompatibilism is the thesis that free will is incompatible with determinism. In this paper, I take inspiration from Kevin Timpe and Timothy Pawl’s account of the impeccability of the blessed to argue for a more r…Read more