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This brief analysis integrates felony murder into William Lane Craig's legal analogies for penal substitutionary atonement, suggesting implications for retributivism.
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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