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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil

Religions, 2023
Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
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A Kantian Response to the Problem of Evil: Living in the Moral World

Religions, 2023
James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these ...
Christopher J. Insole
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2021
In this article, I offer a response to James P. Sterba’s moral argument for the non-existence of God. Sterba applies to God the so-called Pauline Principle that it is not permissible to do evil in order that good may come.
Elizabeth Burns
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A Wittgensteinian Antitheodicy

Religions, 2022
Contrary to the majority of contemporary analytic philosophers of religion, James Sterba argues in his book Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) that Alvin Plantinga with his famous free will defense has not succeeded in solving the logical problem ...
Timo Koistinen
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Sixteen Contributors: A Response

Religions, 2021
It is a rare event indeed to have sixteen philosophers join together in a symposium to reflect up the central question of one’s book [...]
James P. Sterba
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Effect of production and storage of beer on its sensory stability

Kvasný průmysl, 2022
Freshly produced beer is in a state of chemical imbalance and its sensory characteristics change and deteriorate over time. The period when beer resists these undesirable changes is referred to as its shelf stability, which is precisely defined from a ...
Karel Štěrba, Lucie Kyselová
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Forty Contributors: A Response

Religions, 2023
In July of 2021, I finished guest-editing a Special Issue for Religions on the topic of my book Is a Good God Logically Possible [...]
James P. Sterba
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Sterba’s Argument from Evil and Objections to Divine Command Theory

Religions
This paper will respond to James Sterba’s paper “An Ethics without God That is Compatible with Darwinian Evolution”. In his paper, Sterba argues that God cannot be the source of morality.
Caleb Cumberland
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Can Ethics Exist Without God? A Thomistic Critique of James Sterba’s Axiomatic Morality

Religions
This essay explores the question: can we have an objective ethics without God? This question is raised by James Sterba, who argues in the affirmative. As an atheistic ethicist, Sterba is motivated to maintain an objective morality that is not based in ...
Joseph Brian Huffling
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In Answer to the Pauline Principle: Consent, Logical Constraints, and Free Will

Religions, 2022
James Sterba uses the Pauline Principle to argue that the occurrence of significant, horrendous evils is logically incompatible with the existence of a good God.
Marilie Coetsee
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