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Focused Sceptical Theism and Divine Withdrawal

open access: yesNew 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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Suffering, Theodicy, and Defense

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter introduces the project of the book, which is an examination of the problem of evil and an attempt to give a defence with respect to the argument from evil.
Eleonore Stump
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Evil as privative: A McCabian defence [PDF]

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Not all theists who are members of the Abrahamic faiths will sign up to a particular metaphysics of evil: some may be sceptical theists, and others may be uninterested in metaphysical questions altogether.
Scrutton, T.P.
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Job’s DILEMMA: Fiat justitia, ruat caelum

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of the paper is to examine the problem of suffering in the Book of Job and the possible solution it offers. For this reason, it is structured as follows: (I) In the first section, we will analyse Job’s evidential argument; (II) the second ...
Paolo Gomarasca, Gomarasca, Paolo
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Individualized Skeptical Theism

open access: yes, 2019
W artykule podejmuję próbę modyfikacji stanowiska zwanego „teizmem sceptycznym”. Powstało ono jako odpowiedź na dwa najpoważniejsze argumenty przeciwko istnieniu Boga: „argument ze zła” oraz „argument z ukrycia”. Tekst stanowi próbę udzielenia odpowiedzi
Hołda, Miłosz
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The Principle of Analogy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Principle of Analogy. ABSTRACT. Sceptics question whether ‘distinctively human’ predicates such as ‘just’, ‘loving’ and ‘powerful’ can intelligibly be attributed to a divine being. If not, then a vicious form of agnosticism seems to threaten orthodox
Bunting, Harry
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Predicting Divine Action. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophia (Ramat Gan), 2018
Burling H.
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