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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2019
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove Nicholas
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Why Open Theism Is Natural and Classical Theism Is Not

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The cognitive science of religion (CSR) indicates that belief in supernatural agents, or “gods”, is underpinned by maturationally natural cognitive biases and systems (Natural Religion). It is unclear, however, whether theism is natural.
Lari Launonen, R. T. Mullins
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Causal Connections, Logical Connections, and Skeptical Theism: There Is No Logical Problem of Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this paper, I consider Sterba’s recent criticism of skeptical theism in context of his argument from evil. I show that Sterba’s criticism of skeptical theism shares an undesirable trait with all past criticisms of skeptical theism: it fails.
Perry Hendricks
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Neoclassical Theism as Inherently Dialogical

open access: yesReligions, 2022
The position usually called “process theism” is seldom called this by one of its most important defenders, Charles Hartshorne. The label he typically uses is “neoclassical theism”. It is important to notice that these two designations are not equivalent.
Daniel A. Dombrowski
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Panenteizm a teizm klasyczny. Uwagi na kanwie Jacka Wojtysiaka krytyki stanowiska Józefa Życińskiego

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2022
Panentheism and classical theism. Comments on the basis of Jacek Wojtysiak’s criticism of Józef Życiński’s position The article was inspired by the tenth anniversary of the death of Archbishop Życiński and the article containing polemic with his ...
Piotr Gutowski
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Critical Consideration on God's Essence and His Features in Open Theism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Open Theism, as a new perspective in theology, has attracted attention of many scholars and mainly claims that some teachings of classical theism are not in accordance with Scripture and depict God in the way of Greek metaphysic and Hermeneutical pattern.
Eisa Mohammadinia   +1 more
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Compassionate Deism and the Grammar of Permission

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Both theism and atheism assume that God permits evil. But neither theism nor atheism make this assumption with due attention to what I call, following Wittgenstein, the grammar of the term ‘permission’.
Ronald Hall
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Hidden healer: Farewell to reformed ‘tamed’ theism

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2023
This research focuses, firstly, on a farewell from a certain manifestation of traditional, reformed ‘tamed’ theism (that is in this case, theism which neglects or represses the authentic biblical insight into the triune God, who reveals himself in ...
Petrus P. Kruger
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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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