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Has James Sterba Established a Logical Argument from Evil or Just a Very Good Evidential One?
Religions, 2023 James Sterba’s new treatise advancing a logical argument from evil against the existence of God fails in one respect and succeeds in another. As with all claimants to having found such a thing before him, Sterba fails in properly achieving a logical ...
Richard Carrier
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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
E. Balci
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The Problem of Evil and God’s Moral Standing: A Rejoinder to James Sterba
Religions, 2022 This article is a rejoinder to James Sterba’s response to my previous article on the topic of his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible given the amount of horrendous evil in the world. If God did
J. B. Huffling
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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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Is God Morally Obligated to Prevent Evil? A Response to James Sterba
Religions, 2021 James Sterba’s book, Is a Good God Logically Possible?, argues that given the amount of significant and horrendous evil in the world, it is not possible for a (morally) good God to exist.
J. B. Huffling
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On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering
Religions, 2021 In his recent book Is a Good God Logically Possible? and article by the same name, James Sterba argued that the existence of significant and horrendous evils, both moral and natural, is incompatible with the existence of God.
B. Reichenbach
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil
Religions, 2021 In this article, I offer a response to James P. Sterba’s moral argument for the non-existence of God. Sterba applies to God the so-called Pauline Principle that it is not permissible to do evil in order that good may come.
E. Burns
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James Sterba’s New Argument from Evil
Religions, 2020 This article addresses the main argument in James Sterba’s book, an argument which claims that the existence of a good God is logically incompatible with the evil in the world.
W. Hasker
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Divine Morality or Divine Love? On Sterba’s New Logical Problem of Evil
Religions, 2023 In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God’s non-existence.
J. Rutledge
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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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