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Isaac Qatraya and the Logical Problem of Evil

Religions, 2022
Sterba has recently produced a searching and significant version of the argument from evil. Here, I set out aspects of the view of God, suffering, and the afterlife articulated by Isaac Qatraya (also known as Isaac of Nineveh and Isaac the Syrian), and ...
James Henry Collin
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Logical Argument from Evil and Theism

Religions, 2022
The article argues that the logical argument from evil is dead, and the new version presented by James Sterba cannot resurrect it. In the first part, I say that the logical argument from evil is dead either because, in the version given by Mackie, it was
Andrea Aguti
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Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature

Religions, 2022
Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
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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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Is the God of Traditional Theism Logically Compatible with All the Evil in the World?

, 2022
Is the God of traditional theism logically incompatible with all the evil in the world? In his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? (Palgrave paperback, 2019) James Sterba argues that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with ...

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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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