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102Evangelical Ecotheology: How the Resurrection Entails Creation CareStudies in Christian Ethics 37 (2): 228-247. 2024.This article advocates evangelical environmental care by grounding an ethic of nature at the centre of evangelical theology, namely, in Christ and his resurrection. As Paul points out in 1 Corinthians 15, the continuity between our earthly bodies and our resurrected bodies entails that we should take care of our bodies. Drawing on Romans 8, I argue that the same line of reasoning applies to nature: the continuity between creation and the new creation entails that we should take care of nature. F…Read more
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581Are moral values overriding? How beauty challenges Robert adams’s theory of valueJournal of Religious Ethics 49 (4): 681-693. 2022.This article addresses the following meta-ethical question: do moral values have a special position among other values? According to Robert Adams, moral values do have a special position and are of overriding importance. I argue that the "overridingness" thesis is inconsistent with Adams’s value theory that only God has value in himself and all other things are valuable to the extent that they resemble God. I consider some possible ways of integrating the overridingness thesis that are latent in…Read more
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550Can there be an objective morality without God? Derek Parfit argues that it can and offers a theory of morality that is neither theistic nor naturalistic. This book provides a critical assessment of Parfit's metaethical theory. Jakobsen identifies some problems in Parfit’s theory – problems concerning moral normativity, the ontological status of morality, and evolutionary influence on our moral beliefs – and argues that theological resources can help solve them. By showing how Parfit’s theory …Read more
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939Two Sorts of Natural TheologyStudia Theologica 72 (2): 173-197. 2018.Usually, natural theology is understood as the project of providing arguments for the existence of God. This project is endorsed by Moreland and Craig. McGrath, on the other hand, says that this project fails. In the first part of this article, I show how McGrath’s dismissal of arguments for the existence of God follows from his view of natural theology. In the second part, I argue that McGrath’s natural theology contains an accurate critique of Moreland and Craig’s way of doing natural theology…Read more
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426Determining the Need for ExplanationFaith and Philosophy 37 (2): 230-241. 2020.Several theistic arguments are formulated as arguments for the best explanation. This article discusses how one can determine that some phenomenon actually needs an explanation. One way to demonstrate that an explanation is needed is by providing one. The proposed explanation ought to either make the occurrence of the phenomenon in question more probable than it occurring by chance, or it has to sufficiently increase our understanding of the phenomenon. A second way to demonstrate that an explan…Read more
Martin Jakobsen
Ansgar University College
University of Agder
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Ansgar University CollegeAssociate Professor
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University of AgderOther
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Value Theory |
Philosophy of Religion |
Christianity |