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Miracles and Moral Culpability: How To Murder Your Parishioners and Get Away With It*

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Charles Stuart University Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia moluck{at}csu.edu.au

I argue that there exists a proportional relationship between degrees of moral culpability and degrees of probability, where the more an agent believes her actions will result in certain consequences, the more morally culpable she is for these consequences. I assert that this degree of probability is necessarily diminished by the existence of active supernatural powers. Consequently, agents who believe in such powers are less morally culpable than agents who do not.

Key Words: blame • divine action • miracles • moral culpability • moral responsibility

Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 2, 239-249 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0953946808094344


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