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Is God Morally Obligated to Prevent Evil? A Response to James Sterba [PDF]

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.
Joseph Brian Huffling
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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. Brian Huffling
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On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering [PDF]

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.
Bruce R. Reichenbach
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil [PDF]

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.
Elizabeth Burns
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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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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 Modified Free-Will Defense: A Structural and Theistic Free-Will Defense as a Response to James Sterba

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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Uma leitura crítica do biocentrismo de Paul Taylor a partir de James Sterba

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2012
Este artigo analisa a proposta biocêntrica encontrada no artigo “A Biocentrist Strikes Back” (Um biocentrista revida), de James Sterba, que se propõe a defender o biocentrismo de três acusações: de que favorece a espécie humana em detrimento das demais,
Carmelita Schulze
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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality

Religions
This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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Is There a Right to Hope That God Exists? Evil and the Principle of Non-Parity

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I respond to James Sterba’s recent book ‘Is a Good God Logically Possible?’ I show that Sterba concludes that God is not logically possible by ignoring three important issues: (a) the different functions of leeway indeterminism (and the ...
Jacqueline Mariña
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