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The Problem of Evil:

open access: yesActa Theologica
Open theism argues that traditional responses to the problem of evil fail to provide comfort amidst suffering because of their notion of metaphysical determinism and over-dependence on Greek philosophy.
A.S. Antombikums
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Defeating the Problem of Evil with Evil

open access: yesTheoLogica
I argue that the creation and freely chosen salvation and everlasting bliss of even just one person is a greater good than any finite amount of evil and suffering.
Rad Miksa
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A Neo-Thomistic Responce to the Problem of Animal Suffering: review and evaluation of keltz perspective [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Animal suffering and the problem of evil have recently received much attention as a challenge to theism, Keltz seeks to answer this problem with a Neo-Thomistic perspective. This paper examines and evaluates Keltz's defense.
Maryam Soufie   +2 more
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The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019
Skeptical theism is a type of reply to arguments from evil against God’s existence. The skeptical theist declines to accept a premiss of some such argument, professing ignorance, for example, about whether God is justified in permitting certain evils or ...
Edward Wierenga
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Suhrawardi's Views on the Problem of Evil: a Critical Review [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020
Confronting the problem of evil, Suhrawardi seeks to use philosophical concepts and explanations to show that God and all His creatures are good, that the world is the best possible one, and that dualistic cosmology is false. He believes in the privation
Javad Ayar, Mahdi Monfared
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Spinoza and Letters on Evil

open access: yesDin ve Bilim Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi İslami İlimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023
The letter is a communication tool used by many thinkers and scientists. It is generally written to disseminate ideas, criticize, and open discussion. The tradition of philosophizing with letters is a method and a form of philosophical discourse widely ...
Fatma SOMUNCUOĞLU ERKAN
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Suffering in Rumi’s View with a Glance at the Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2013
Suffering On the one hand is the existential problem that leads us to ask on why it exists, and on the other hand is a philosophical and theological question that challenges divine justice or even the existence of God.
Hossein Mahmodi, Asghar Dadbeh
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Locating the Problem of Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2023
I argue that James Sterba’s argument from evil involves a category mistake. He applies moral principles that pertain to ethical requirements that apply within creation to what may be called the ethics or axiology of creating and sustaining creation.
Charles Champe Taliaferro
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A Moral Criticism of Contemporary Islamic Philosophy's Responses (According to Tabatabai and Motahhari’s Viewpoints) to the Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023
There are three accounts of the problem of evil: (1) Logical problem of evil (The logical incompatibility between the existence of God and His attributes and the existence of evil); (2) The evidential problem of evil (Evil as evidence against the ...
Zahra Yahyapour   +2 more
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The Context of Suffering

open access: yesTheoLogica, 2021
While the evidential problem of evil has been enormously influential within the contemporary philosophical literature—William Rowe’s 1979 formulation in “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism” being the most seminal—no academic research has ...
Ian Church   +2 more
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