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Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy

Religions, 2023
James Sterba has recently constructed a new and compelling logical problem of evil that rejects Plantinga’s free-will defense and employs the concept of significant freedom and the Pauline Principle to demonstrate an incompatibility between the existence
Asha Lancaster-Thomas
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A Compensatory Response to the Problem of Evil

Religions, 2021
In this essay, I affirm the univocity thesis while discussing some alternative positions that avoid the problem of evil by rejecting the univocity thesis.
Michael Douglas Beaty
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Horrendous-Difference Disabilities, Resurrected Saints, and the Beatific Vision: A Theodicy

Religions, 2018
Marilyn Adams rightly pointed out that there are many kinds of evil, some of which are horrendous. I claim that one species of horrendous evil is what I call horrendous-difference disabilities.
Scott M. Williams
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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil

Religions, 2023
Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
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Hrozné zlo a jeho dopad na filozofické chápanie Boha ( Horrendous Evil and its Implications for the Philosophical Understanding of God )

Ostium, 2017
The argument from evil in the contemporary analytic philosophy of religion changed from the logical problem to the evidential problem of evil, and recently to the problem of horrendous evil. D. Z.
Ľuboš Rojka
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Limited Intervention and Moral Kindergartens

Religions, 2022
Recently, William Hasker and Cheryl Chen have argued that James Sterba’s argument for the non-existence of God based on the existence of horrendous evil consequences fails.
Daniel Lim
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Does the Analogy of an Ideal State Disprove God’s Existence? James Sterba’s Argument and a Thomistic Response

Religions, 2022
This paper provides an analysis of James Sterba’s argument from evil in the world and the author’s Thomistic counterargument. Many authors of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion discuss the concept of “horrendous evils”, which is a ...
Patrik Hrmo
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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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A Dilemma for Sterba

Religions, 2022
James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World

Religions, 2023
James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these ...
Christopher J. Insole
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