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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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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 +1 more
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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 +1 more
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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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On a New Logical Problem of Evil
Faith and Philosophy, 2015 J. L. Schellenberg has formulated two versions of a new logical argument from evil, an argument he claims to be immune to Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense. The first version assumes that God created the world to model God’s goodness, and the second to share with the world the good that already existed.
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Defeating the Problem of Evil with Evil
TheoLogicaI 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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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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TheoLogica, 2019 The principle of organic unities is a metaphysical claim regarding the nature of moral value. It states that the value of the whole is not equal to the summation of its parts.
Graham Floyd
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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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