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How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy
Religions, 2023 James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God.
Mark Johnston
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Of Monsters and Men: A Spectrum View of the Imago Dei
Religions, 2023 I explore the view that the imago Dei is essential to us as humans but accidental to us as persons. To image God is to resemble God, and resemblance comes in degrees.
C. A. McIntosh
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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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Sterba’s Problem of Evil vs. Sterba’s Problem of Specificity: Which Is the Real Problem?
Religions, 2022 In 2019 the noted ethicist and political philosopher James Sterba published a new deductive version of the argument from the problem of evil to the conclusion that an Anselmian God does not exist.
Michael S. Jones
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Hans Jonas' Feeble Theodicy: How on Earth Could God Retire? [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we criticize Hans Jonas’s analogy between God’s power and the operation of physical forces. We wonder why, if omnipotence had proved to be "a self-contradictory concept", does Jonas still need to invoke the occurrence of horrendous evils ...
Clavier, Paul
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Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023 The topic of court criticism coupled with severe warnings about the dangers of a royal dictator or tyrant was well represented in medieval and early modern literature.
Albrecht Classen
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]
, 2019 In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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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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Moral Imaginative Resistance to Heaven: Why the Problem of Evil is So Intractable [PDF]
, 2018 The majority of philosophers of religion, at least since Plantinga’s reply to Mackie’s logical problem of evil, agree that it is logically possible for an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God to exist who permits ...
Kramer, Chris
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will
Religions, 2022 James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
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