Do We Now Have a Logical Argument from Evil?

In this reprint of a Special Issue of Religions, forty contributors respond to James Sterba’s argument that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, and he responds to them. While responding to contributors has led Sterba to change his argument in a num...

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Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2024
Subjects:	skeptical theism problem of evil God moral morality evil theism Mu’tazila James Sterba Qādi Abd al-Jabbar justice moral kindergarten William Hasker Cheryl Chen logical problem of evil evidential problem of evil Sterba Free Will theodicy Free Will defence sovereignty Plantinga Mackie Pauline Principle theodical individualism Omelas the problem of evil Doctrine of the Double Effect Skeptical Theism Moral Evil Prevention Requirements horrendous evil consequences of immoral actions inference to the best explanation divine omnipotence divine goodness divine sovereignty theodicy teleological and deontological ethics logical problem of moral evil open theism divine non-interference divine prime directive Elif Nur Balci Janusz Salamon the free will defense Alvin Plantinga free will defense providence horrendous evil ideal state Thomas Aquinas Thomism argument from evil argument from hiddenness alternatives to theism god epistemic distance freedom evilness in God biblical theology familial imagery divine incest narcissistic personality disorder narcissistic parenting Ezekiel 16 autonomy soul-making logical argument from evil John Mackie free-will defense Aquinas divine freedom Leibniz Kant counterfactuals possible worlds natural evil moral evil incompatibility arguments animal suffering divine command theory sterba plantinga mackie pauline principle preexistence of souls Origin defense God’s moral obligations Kantian ethics categorical imperative connection building theodicy problem of specificity sorites paradox doctrine of God religion creator theology antitheodicy D. Z. Phillips Isaac Qatraya Isaac of Nineveh Isaac the Syrian problem of suffering saint-making sceptical theism consent free will Doctrine of Double Effect compensatory response to the problem of evil existential problem of evil greater goods defense horrendous evils playpen freedom univocity thesis Marilyn McCord Adams Richard Swinburne rationality value theory divine agency God and morality friendship with God deism heaven naturalism redemption mercy doctrine of heaven Neo-Platonism God’s reason for creating the Principle of Sufficient Reason why there is something rather than nothing modal argument for God’s existence the origin of evil omnipotence abjuration the mismatch between God’s reasons for creating and the total face of the material universe fine-tuning as demiurgic work negative demiurgy holiness the Beatific Vision God’s redemptive back-up plan grace the importance of a community of grace omnibenevolence desert n/a thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
Online Access:	ONIX_20240514_9783039285952_90
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Do We Now Have a Logical Argument from Evil?

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