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Axiological Skeptical Theism Proved

Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion, 2023
Perry C Hendricks
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Skeptical Theism

2021
Abstract This chapter critically examines skeptical theism, roughly the point of view that God exists but that God’s reasons for permitting evils are beyond our abilities to discern. Matters addressed include the epistemic import of appearances of pointlessness, the skeptical theses and analogies for the human condition with respect to ...
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Skeptical Theism

Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form:  If God exists, the world would not be like
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Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2013
Over the last twenty-five years skeptical theism has become one of the leading contemporary responses to the atheological argument from evil. However, more recently, some critics of skeptical theism have argued that the skeptical theists are in fact unwittingly committed to a malignant form of moral skepticism.
Scott Aikin, Brian Ribeiro
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Deontological sceptical theism proved

Religious Studies, 2023
AbstractIn this article, I argue that sceptical theists have too narrow a focus: they consider only God's axiological reasons, ignoring any non-axiological reasons he may have. But this is a mistake: predicting how God will act requires knowing about his reasons in general, and this requires knowing about both God's axiological and non-axiological ...
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Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Moral Skepticism

Philosophia Christi, 2022
One objection to skeptical theism is that it implies radical moral skepticism. Humans cannot make any moral judgments on this view because of their ignorance of the inaccessible divine knowledge that is called upon to explain the existence of apparently gratuitous evil.
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Skeptical Theism, God, and Evidence

2022
Skeptical theism is an important position (or set of positions) that—if true—has significant implications in the philosophy of religion regarding the epistemic status of theism and atheism. Broadly speaking, skeptical theists are theists who are skeptical about the ability of humans to discern, by certain methods, the probability of God permitting ...
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Skeptical theism, moral skepticism, and epistemic propriety

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2016
Respondents to the argument from evil who follow Michael Bergmann’s development of skeptical theism hold that our failure to determine God’s reasons for permitting evil does not disconfirm theism (i.e. render theism less probable on the evidence of evil than it would be if merely evaluated against our background knowledge) at all.
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Does Skeptical Theism Lead to Moral Skepticism?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006
beings suffering for no apparent good reason. Perhaps the most common criticism of the evidential argument comes from the camp of skeptical theism, whose lot includes William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, and Stephen Wykstra. According to skeptical theism the limits of human knowledge concerning the realm of goods, evils, and the connections between values,
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The Nature of Skeptical Theism

Philosophia Christi, 2019
Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Recently, Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Yoaav Isaacs have argued that the theses that ground skeptical theism are either false or limited in scope. In this article, I show that their objections rest on dubious assumptions about the nature of skeptical theism.
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