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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

, 1991
Abstract It is a good thing that humans should have the opportunity to choose freely between good and evil; and so it is also good that there should be natural evil — to give us the knowledge of how to bring about good and evil events ourselves, and to give us the opportunity to react to suffering with courage and sympathy.
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The Problem of Evil, Skeptical Theism and Moral Epistemology [PDF]

, 2021
Scott M. Coley
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems

Open Theology, 2019
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove Nicholas
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The woman had to fall? Jean-Baptiste Clamence and the literary infection by evil

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
The article presents the concept of evil, as developed in the literary as well as philosophical works of Albert Camus. After a short, preliminary notice on the relationship between literature and evil, the article presents two spheres, in which the ...
Maciej Kałuża
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NATURAL SELECTION AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO AN ANCIENT DEBATE

Zygon, 2011
.  Since Darwin, scholars have contemplated what our growing understanding of natural selection, combined with the fact that great suffering occurs, allows us to infer about the possibility that a benevolent God created the universe.
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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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Evil, Prayer and Transformation

Open Theology, 2020
Analytic theodicy commonly suggests an overarching reason why a benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent deity permits the quantity and intensity of suffering in our world.
Burns Elizabeth D.
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God Unhinged? A Critique of Quasi-Fideism

Religions
Drawing on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, Duncan Pritchard argues for a position he calls quasi-fideism. Quasi-Fideism is the view that hinge commitments such as “God exists” are exempt from rational scrutiny within the language game of religion.
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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The Drama of Divine Providence: Reflections on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2015
This article studies the problem of evil in Abrahamic religions and philosophical traditions, and tries to restate their solutions in a contemporary language.
Edward Alam
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EXPLAINING EVIL IN THE BIOSPHERE: ASSESSING SOME EVOLUTIONARY THEODICIES FOR MUSLIM THEISTS

Zygon, 2022
The problem of evil is one of the most difficult and protracted problems for the trio of Abrahamic faiths that uphold the classical conception of an “omni‐competent God”—omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent.
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