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The Sceptical Response to the Existential Problem of Systemic Suffering

Open Theology, 2021
Recently, Yujin Nagasawa has argued that “systemic suffering” – suffering inherent in the evolutionary process – poses a problem for existentially optimistic theists and atheists who think that the world is overall good and therefore are happy and ...
Francis Jonbäck
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Sceptical theism and fine-tuning: relocating rather than resolving the tension

Religious Studies
Abstract Sceptical theism is commonly deployed as a response to evidential arguments from evil by challenging our entitlement to infer, from the evils we observe, what God would or would not be likely to permit. Standard fine-tuning arguments, however, appear to require precisely the sort of expectation-guided reasoning that sceptical
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Cartesian goodness and the problem of evil. [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2019
The aim of this article is to provide a foundation for one of the variants of a sceptical response to the arguments from the evil by means of the analysis of the notion of the perfect goodness of God.
Aleksandr Mishura
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Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil [PDF]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
Given plausible assumptions about the nature of evidence and undercutting defeat, many believe that the force of the evidential problem of evil depends on sceptical theism’s being false: if evil is...
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The Problem of Evil

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article examines approaches to the problem of evil in historical and contemporary Jewish theology. The material is structured conceptually rather than as a chronological survey. The introduction contrasts classical Jewish formulations of the problem
Michael J. Harris
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Focused Sceptical Theism and Divine Withdrawal

New Blackfriars
AbstractAll orthodox believers accept that ‘God’s ways are not our ways’ and that ‘the peace of God passes all understanding’. The sceptical theist tries to apply these principles to the mystery of evil in the world, by arguing that we cannot tell what the divine purpose might be in the sufferings that we cannot explain.
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Sceptical theism, divine commands, and love

Religious Studies
Abstract Sceptical theists respond to the problem of evil by arguing that we should be sceptical of our abilities to understand God's plan and the justifying reasons for his actions. A major difficulty faced by sceptical theism is the problem of moral paralysis.
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Sceptical theism undermines the fine-tuning argument. Mostly

Religious Studies
Abstract After outlining sceptical theism (ST) and the fine-tuning argument (FTA), I demonstrate how arguments for the former undercut the latter. I then consider and reject three recent proposals for ameliorating the conflict: positive ST, considerations about normative superiors, and appeal to theistic metaethics. I contend, however,
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Predicting Divine Action. [PDF]

Philosophia (Ramat Gan), 2018
Burling H.
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What GPs mean by 'spirituality' and how they apply this concept with patients: a qualitative study. [PDF]

BJGP Open, 2018
Appleby A, Swinton J, Wilson P.
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