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Religions, 2022 In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles the existence of a good and omnipotent God with the existence of evil, is a failed argument when it comes to the terrible evils in
Elif Nur Balci
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A Critique of Schellenberg’s New Logical Argument from Evil [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023 In a new formulation of the logical problem of evil, J. L. Schellenberg attempts to develop a new version of the logical form of the problem of evil through the logical inconsistency of the conjunction of three theistic claims with the existence of evil.
Mahboobeh Pakdel, Amirabbas Alizamani
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Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba
Religions, 2022 James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain the compossibility of a perfect God and the amount and degree of moral evil that we see. I think he is mistaken about this.
Luis R. G. Oliveira
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The Free Will Defense and the Problem of Heavenly Freedom
Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023 According to the logical problem of evil, the co-existence of evil and the theistic God who is considered to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent is impossible. The fact that our world contains evils invalidates the existence of the theistic God.
Ferhat Taşkın
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God, Evil, and Meticulous Providence
Religions, 2022 James Sterba has constructed a powerful argument for there being a conflict between the presence of evil in the world and the existence of God. I contend that Sterba’s argument depends on a crucial assumption, namely, that God has an obligation to act ...
Bruce R. Reichenbach
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God’s Prime Directive: Non-Interference and Why There Is No (Viable) Free Will Defense
Religions, 2022 In a recent book and article, James Sterba has argued that there is no free will defense. It is the purpose of this article to show that, in the most technical sense, he is wrong.
David Kyle Johnson
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The New Logical Problem of Evil and Free Will Defense [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017 The argument based on the existence of evil in the world, as an atheistic argument against the existence of God, has two versions: logical and evidential.
Fatemeh Namavar +2 more
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TheoLogica, 2021 A central feature of the “free will defense” as developed by Alvin Plantinga is his response to the claim that God can create a world containing creatures with libertarian freedom that contains no moral evil. Plantinga’s response appeals to the notion of
Steven B. Cowan
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A Compensatory Response to the Problem of Evil: Revisited
Religions, 2022 In this essay, I revisit the univocity thesis, Sterba’s analogy between God and a leader of a politically liberal society, and, most fundamentally, whether the existence of horrendous evils is logically compatible with the existence of a good God.
Michael Douglas Beaty
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God and the Playpen: On the Feasibility of Morally Better Worlds
Religions, 2021 According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with free creatures, and hence a world with moral goodness, without allowing for the possibility of evil.
Cheryl K. Chen
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