Alexander Pruss's Blog

The Catholic Church teaches that celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom is better than marriage. Until recently, I assumed that this was celib...

Start with these observations: Love is the most important aspect of the moral life. If love is the most important aspect of on...

According to the penal substitution theory of the atonement, Christ's sufferings satisfy justice in place of our being punished. Th...

Here is an asymmetry between good and evil actions. It is very easy to generate cases of infinitely morally bad actions. You just ne...

Suppose that I am now undergoing suffering S on account of a greater good G . If there was no way of gaining G or something com...

After it took place, Christ's sacrifice had never ceased to be a part of reality. But Christ's sacrifice did not continu...

My previous post on atonement implicitly identified one constraint ("must") and one desideratum ("should") fo...

Every orthodox Christian agrees that: Salvation occurs at least in part because of Christ's death on the cross. The "a...

None of us are called to sacrifice our children on Mount Moriah. But some of us are called to forgive horrendous evils done to o...

It seems to me it would have been less appropriate for God to ask Sarah to sacrifice a daughter than to ask Abraham to sacrifice a...

There are two fairly standard claims about love: benevolence--willing the good--towards the beloved is an essential component of love, and l...