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Getting off the Omnibus: Rejecting Free Will and Soul-Making Responses to the Problem of Evil

Open Theology, 2020
The nature of suffering and the problem of evil have been perennial issues for many of the world’s religious traditions. Each in their own way has sought to address this problem, whether driven by the all too present reality of suffering or from ...
Macallan Brian C.
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Following the Footsteps of John Polkinghorne: In Search of Divine Action in the World

Religions, 2021
John Polkinghorne was, undoubtedly, one of the most influential authors in the dialogue between science and religion. His attitude is characterized by a focus on the concept of kenosis in response to the ontological orientation of process philosophy and ...
Miroslav Karaba
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Omnipotence, Omnibenevolence, and Evil [PDF]

, 2015
This paper attempts to defend the attributes of omnipotence and omnibenevolence in light of evil. Possible worlds can be used to show that God perhaps has reasons for permiting evil, and these reasons can reconcile God\u27s attributes with the existence ...
McCarty, Emily
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Antithrombin: Deficiency, Diversity, and the Future of Diagnostics

Mass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our healthcare system provides reactive sick‐care, treating patients after symptoms have appeared by prescription of generic and often suboptimal therapy. This strategy brings along high costs and high pressure which is not sustainable.
Mirjam Kruijt, Christa M. Cobbaert, L. Renee Ruhaak   +2 more
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Goodness Needs No Privilege: A Reply to Funkhouser [PDF]

, 2006
According to Eric Funkhouser, omnipotence and necessary moral perfection (what Funkhouser calls "impeccability") are not compatible. Funkhouser gives two arguments for this claim.
Senor, Thomas D.
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Teoriden Pratiğe Teklîf-i Mâ Lâ Yutâk: Fahreddin er-Râzî’nin Görüşleri ve Mu‘tezile’ye Yönelttiği Eleştiriler

Kader
Bu çalışma, kelâm ilminin temel tartışma konularından biri olan "teklîf-i mâ lâ yutâk" meselesini Fahreddin er-Râzî’nin (ö. 606/1210) yorumları çerçevesinde ele almaktadır.
Yakup Hafızoğlu
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Logical Omnipotence and Two notions of Implicit Belief [PDF]

, 2019
The most widespread models of rational reasoners (the model based on modal epistemic logic and the model based on probability theory) exhibit the problem of logical omniscience.
Fraga Dantas, Danilo
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Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

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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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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