Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Jack Symes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135041929X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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The evil-god challenge is one of the most popular topics in contemporary philosophy of religion. In this landmark text, Jack Symes offers the most detailed examination of the challenge to date. Exploring the nature of god through the leading schools of philosophical theology, Symes argues that it is significantly more reasonable to attribute goodness to god than evil. Drawing from a breadth of ground-breaking material – in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and epistemology – Symes claims to defeat the evil-god challenge on behalf of traditional theism. Is it any more reasonable to believe in a good god than an evil god? Not according to proponents of the evil-god challenge. After all, the world contains a significant amount of good and evil for which either god could be held responsible. However, if belief in both gods is equally as reasonable, then religious believers are unjustified in favouring one hypothesis over the other. Therefore, in order to defend their faith, theists must respond to the evil-god challenge: the question of what justifies belief in good god over evil god.

Author: James P. Sterba
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030054691
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. It is widely held by theists and atheists alike that it may be logically impossible for an all good, all powerful God to create a world with moral agents like ourselves that does not also have at least some moral evil in it. James P. Sterba focuses on the further question of whether God is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. The negative answer he provides marks a new stage in the age-old debate about God's existence.

Author: Timothy DWIGHT (D.D., President of Yale College.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904

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Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: Lee Thai
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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If God is good and virtuous, why is there so much vicious evil in this world? Why does God let pain and evil fall on innocent little children? Why does he not intervene? Where is God when it hurts? This groundbreaking book solves an enigma that has plagued humanity since times immemorial. Using the concept of tough love, Vicious Evil! Virtuous God? untangles the age-old Epicurus's riddle, resolves the contemporary ""problems of evil,"" and provides some practical means to manage the evils in our lives and help others in their suffering. Vicious Evil! Virtuous God? answers our many heart-wrenching questions in this ""vale of suffering,"" brings us comfort in our tribulations, and equips us to make a defense for the hope that we share in Christ.

Author: Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118316827
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 817

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The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy. Brings together 82 classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from seminal works by Hume and Kant to contemporary views by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and many more Features updates and the inclusion of a new section on feminist ethics, along with a general introduction and section introductions by Russ Shafer-Landau Guides readers through key areas in ethical theory including consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics Includes underrepresented topics such as moral knowledge, moral standing, moral responsibility, and ethical particularism

Author: John SCOTT (D.D., Canon of St. Paul's.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Robert Merrihew Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195364783
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Robert Merrihew Adams has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the commands of God. This collection of Adams' essays, two of which are previously unpublished, draws from his extensive writings on philosophical theology that discuss metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding the concept of God--whether God exists or not, what God is or would be like, and how we ought to relate ourselves to such a being. Adams studies the relation between religion and ethics, delving into an analysis of moral arguments for theistic belief. In several essays, he applies contemporary studies in the metaphysics of individuality, possibility and necessity, and counterfactual conditionals to issues surrounding the existence of God and problems of evil.