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Hyper-Past Evils: A Reply to Bogdan V. Faul

Open Theology, 2020
A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s “Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt.” In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We
Goldschmidt Tyron, Lebens Samuel
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God, Evil, and Infinite Value

Religions, 2018
Prominent approaches to the problems of evil assume that even if the Anselmian God exists, some worlds are better than others, all else being equal. But the assumptions that the Anselmian God exists and that some worlds are better than others cannot be ...
Marshall Naylor
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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]

, 2012
In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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The Secular Problem of Evil: An Essay in Analytic Existentialism [PDF]

, 2021
The existence of evil is often held to pose philosophical problems only for theists. I argue that the existence of evil gives rise to a philosophical problem which confronts theist and atheist alike. The problem is constituted by the following claims: (1)
Prescott, Paul
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The problem of evil in Hinduism [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2010
After having pointed to the different religious concepts of the origin of evil, the author focuses on the discussion of Hinduism as a typical paradigm of monism.
Kinđić Zoran
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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil [PDF]

, 2018
This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world.
Hernandez, Jill
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The Hidden Love of God and the Imaging Defense [PDF]

, 2020
J. L. Schellenberg has recently argued that there is a logical incompatibility between God’s being perfectly loving and there being non-resistant nonbelievers in the proposition that God exists.
Yadav, Sameer
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The Moral Argument against the Existence of God? [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017
While the moral argument for the existence of God is a more familiar issue in philosophy of religion, recently, atheist philosophers have proposed a moral argument against the existence of God. This argument has been formulated in at least five ways: (1)
Amirhossein Khodaparast
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A Dilemma for Sterba

Religions, 2022
James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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Reviving Manichaeism with the Evil God Challenge

Religions
In contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, the evil God challenge has been developed by several authors as a parody argument. Proponents of this challenge contend that, given the goods in our world, the hypothesis of an omnipotent, omniscient ...
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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