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Dialogues on the Issues of Theodicy in Late Ming Fujian

Religions
This paper aims to illustrate the dialogues on the issues of theodicy in late Ming Fujian. The Catholicism that entered China in the late Ming dynasty had a competitive relationship with indigenous religions in terms of their meaning systems. Catholicism
Qinghe Xiao
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An Exposition of Augustine\u27s Theodicy: From Its Influences to Its Modern Application [PDF]

, 2011
This paper delineates the thrust of Augustine\u27s theodicy against the broader background of his Christian Neoplatonic outlook. We examine Augustine\u27s initial Manichean influences and see how these beliefs carry over to his mature thought, which is ...
Gray, Kevin J.
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What Are the Odds that Everyone is Depraved? [PDF]

, 2020
Why does God allow evil? One hypothesis is that God desires the existence and activity of free creatures but He was unable to create a world with such creatures and such activity without also allowing evil. If Molinism is true, what probability should be
Hill, Scott
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Salvaging Pascal’s Wager [PDF]

, 2019
Many think that Pascal’s Wager is a hopeless failure. A primary reason for this is because a number of challenging objections have been raised to the wager, including the “many gods” objection and the “mixed strategy” objection.
Jackson, Elizabeth, Rogers, Andrew
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Capital as Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines science-fictional allegorizations of Soviet-style planned economies, financial markets, autonomous trading algorithms, and global capitalism writ large as nonhuman artificial intelligences, focussing primarily on American science ...
Canavan, Gerry
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Logic and the Concept of God [PDF]

, 2019
This paper introduces the special issue on the Concept of God of the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications). The issue contains the following articles: Logic and the Concept of God, by Stanisław Krajewski and Ricardo Silvestre; Mathematical ...
Krajewski, Stanisław, Silvestre, Ricardo Sousa   +1 more
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Divine Foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil: Four Views [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the issues of divine foreknowledge and the Problem of Evil from the standpoint of four different theological systems: Open Theism, Arminianism, Molinism, and Calvinism.
Justice, Nathan S
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Experiential Knowledge Without Experience: A response to Cray [PDF]

, 2015
This paper responds to Wesley Cray’s article “Omniscience and Worthiness of Worship.” According to Cray, “an omniscient being is one that instantiates all propositional and experiential knowledge,” and no person can have that entire body knowledge ...
Bobbitt, Mary L
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The Influence Aim Problem of Petitionary Prayer: A Cosmic Conflict Approach [PDF]

, 2020
This article addresses the problem of whether petitionary prayer, aimed at influencing God, is consistent with the traditional Christian affirmations of divine omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence. In this article, I first briefly articulate the
Peckham, John C.
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Mackie\u27s Arguement for the Infinite Man [PDF]

, 2019
Theists and non-theists alike have toiled with the characteristics of the Judeo-Christian God and how they may or may not be contradictory with the existence of evil. Some philosophers, such as J. L. Mackie, have decided that God and evil cannot coexist,
Basile, Abigail J
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