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Major Gaps in Sterba’s New Atheological Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
In this essay, I first offer several scenarios where Sterba’s argument based on the Pauline Principle fails: specifically, one in which we all consent to living an earthly life in some prior existence (prior-consent scenario), one in which the victims ...
Robin Collins
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Intentionality, belief, and the logical problem of evil [PDF]

Religious Studies, 2019
AbstractThis article provides a new defence against the logical problem of evil, based on the naturalistic functional/teleological theory of mind (NFT). I argue that if the NFT is self-consistent then it is consistent with theism. Further, the NFT entails that it is not possible for created minds to exist in the absence of evil.
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The Challenge of Theodicy and the Divine Access to the Universe [PDF]

, 2009
Any new attempt to cope with the problem of theodicy is forced to reinterpret and remodify the classic set of divine attributes. Classical monotheism, at least in the Christian or Islamic tradition, emphasizes the concept of God as a personal, almighty ...
Schärtl, Thomas
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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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A Wittgensteinian Antitheodicy

Religions, 2022
Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with his famous free will defense has not succeeded in solving the logical problem ...
Timo Koistinen
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Sterba’s Logical Argument from Evil and the God Who Walks Away from Omelas

Religions, 2022
The logical argument from evil, generally thought to have been defused by Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense, has been reinvigorated by James Sterba’s exposition and defense of a new version of the argument that draws on recent work in moral philosophy.
Erik J. Wielenberg
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A Comparison between Swinburne’s and Mutahari’s views on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014
The problem of evil, as raised by Mutahari and Swinburne, is one of the most important and complicated problems concerning belief in God and teleology of the world.
Hamidreza Ekandari Damaneh, Ghasem Purhasan   +1 more
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Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective

Religious Studies, 2022
AbstractWe argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from the unequal binary that characterizes the bivalent structure of Western discourses in the philosophy of religion. This structure pits God against the devil, but also the value of good against evil they are believed to represent.
Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Amara Esther Chimakonam   +1 more
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Defeating the Problem of Evil with Evil

TheoLogica
I argue that the creation and freely chosen salvation and everlasting bliss of even just one person is a greater good than any finite amount of evil and suffering.
Rad Miksa
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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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