Reprint
Do We Now Have a Logical Argument from Evil?
Edited by
January 2024
544 pages
- ISBN978-3-03928-595-2 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-03928-596-9 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Do We Now Have a Logical Argument from Evil? that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
In this reprint of a Special Issue of Religions, forty contributors respond to James Sterba’s argument that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world, and he responds to them. While responding to contributors has led Sterba to change his argument in a number of ways, which he indicates, the main conclusion of his argument has remained unchanged. He still holds that the all-good, all-powerful God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with all the evil in the world.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
skeptical theism; problem of evil; God; moral; morality; evil; theism; Mu’tazila; James Sterba; Qādi Abd al-Jabbar; justice; problem of evil; moral kindergarten; James Sterba; William Hasker; Cheryl Chen; logical problem of evil; evidential problem of evil; Sterba; Free Will theodicy; Free Will defence; sovereignty; evil; God; Sterba; Plantinga; Mackie; Pauline Principle; theodical individualism; Omelas; the problem of evil; Pauline Principle; Doctrine of the Double Effect; Skeptical Theism; Moral Evil Prevention Requirements; horrendous evil consequences of immoral actions; inference to the best explanation; problem of evil; divine omnipotence; divine goodness; divine sovereignty; theodicy; teleological and deontological ethics; logical problem of moral evil; James Sterba; open theism; divine non-interference; divine prime directive; Elif Nur Balci; Janusz Salamon; the free will defense; Alvin Plantinga; free will defense; providence; problem of evil; James Sterba; divine goodness; horrendous evil; ideal state; James Sterba; problem of evil; theodicy; Thomas Aquinas; Thomism; argument from evil; argument from hiddenness; alternatives to theism; evil; horrendous evil; god; epistemic distance; freedom; evilness in God; biblical theology; familial imagery; divine incest; narcissistic personality disorder; narcissistic parenting; Ezekiel 16; problem of evil; morality; freedom; autonomy; soul-making; skeptical theism; logical argument from evil; John Mackie; James Sterba; free-will defense; theism; God; evil; moral; theism; Aquinas; Sterba; problem of evil; divine freedom; Leibniz; Kant; counterfactuals; possible worlds; problem of evil; natural evil; moral evil; logical problem of evil; incompatibility arguments; animal suffering; divine command theory; evil; god; sterba; plantinga; mackie; pauline principle; logical problem of evil; Sterba; preexistence of souls; Origin; theodicy; defense; God’s moral obligations; Kantian ethics; categorical imperative; connection building theodicy; God; horrendous evil; James Sterba; Pauline Principle; problem of evil; problem of specificity; sorites paradox; theodicy; theodicy; doctrine of God; religion; evil; James Sterba; argument from evil; creator theology; theodicy; antitheodicy; D. Z. Phillips; logical problem of evil; free will defense; James Sterba; Alvin Plantinga; God; evil; theodicy; defense; skeptical theism; morality; Isaac Qatraya; Isaac of Nineveh; Isaac the Syrian; problem of evil; problem of suffering; soul-making; saint-making; theodicy; sceptical theism; God; evil; Sterba; logical argument from evil; problem of evil; skeptical theism; consent; free will; Pauline Principle; Doctrine of Double Effect; compensatory response to the problem of evil; existential problem of evil; free will defense; greater goods defense; horrendous evils; playpen freedom; univocity thesis; Marilyn McCord Adams; James Sterba; Richard Swinburne; problem of evil; rationality; value theory; divine agency; theodicy; logical problem of evil; divine goodness; God and morality; friendship with God; horrendous evil; Alvin Plantinga; John Mackie; James Sterba; evil; deism; heaven; Kant; evil; Sterba; God; theism; naturalism; redemption; mercy; problem of evil; James Sterba; doctrine of heaven; theodicy; free will; God; theism; evil; God; Neo-Platonism; the problem of evil; the free will defense; God’s reason for creating; the Principle of Sufficient Reason; why there is something rather than nothing; modal argument for God’s existence; the origin of evil; omnipotence; abjuration; the mismatch between God’s reasons for creating and the total face of the material universe; fine-tuning as demiurgic work; negative demiurgy; holiness; the Beatific Vision; God’s redemptive back-up plan; grace; the importance of a community of grace; evil; omnipotence; omnibenevolence; theodicy; desert; n/a