Religious responses to the problem of evil are concerned with reconciling the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and...
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ethics. But as usually understood, the problem of evil is posed in a theological context. Responses to the problem of evil have traditionally been in three...
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Theodicy (redirect from God and evil)
responses to the problem of evil had previously been offered. Similar to a theodicy, a cosmodicy attempts to justify the fundamental goodness of the universe...
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problem of hell is "a version of" the problem of evil. He defines the problem of hell: "If there is an omniperfect God—one that necessarily has the perfection...
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The problem of religious language considers whether it is possible to talk about God meaningfully if the traditional conceptions of God as being incorporeal...
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manifestation of evil. Theodicy attempts to resolve the evidential problem of evil by reconciling the traditional divine characteristics of omnibenevolence...
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inferred to be the analogue of evil in it. In response to the practices of Nazi Germany, Hannah Arendt concluded that "the problem of evil would be the fundamental...
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The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. Amulets to protect against it have been...
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Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense (redirect from Alvin Plantinga's version of the free will defense)
against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955. Mackie's formulation of the logical problem of evil argued...
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characterization of evil as presented in his "A Response to the Problem of an 'Evil God' as Raised by Stephen Law", John Zande argued that maximum evil (identified...
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Thomas Talbott (category Year of birth missing (living people))
transformed the way in which contemporary philosophers approach the so-called problem of evil and why, in particular, even atheistic philosophers came to abandon...
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Irenaean theodicy (section Evidential problem of evil)
The Irenaean theodicy is a Christian theodicy (a response to the problem of evil). It defends the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (all-powerful...
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against the theological problem of evil. The argument goes that the free will defense can only justify the presence of moral evil in light of an omnibenevolent...
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series. Religious responses to Harry Potter have not all been negative. "At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view," notes...
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BK Shivani (category Pages using embedded infobox templates with the title parameter)
the teachings. In 2007, due to the unavailability of other teachers, she was asked to start answering the viewers' queries herself. She is married to...
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of God and the Problem of Evil." Religious Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, 1999, pp. 331–352. Hick, John. An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the...
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Augustinian theodicy (redirect from The Augustinian theodicy)
theodicy that developed in response to the evidential problem of evil. As such, it attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent (all-powerful)...
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Religious skepticism is a type of skepticism relating to religion. Religious skeptics question religious authority and are not necessarily antireligious/clerical...
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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami? is a short book from 2005 about theodicy and the problem of evil by David Bentley Hart, an Orthodox...
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Omnipotence paradox (redirect from Problem of omnipotence)
Religion portal Gödel's incompleteness theorems List of paradoxes Problem of evil The Select Book of Beliefs and Convictions, Kafich ed. and translation...
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evil should be defeated. Evil is often used to denote profound immorality. Evil has also been described as a supernatural force. Definitions of evil vary...
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religion in general. It should also not be conflated with religious humanism, which refers to a nontheistic movement that practices humanism in congregational...
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Alvin Plantinga (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
which attempts to refute the logical problem of evil, the argument that the existence of evil is logically incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent...
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Skeptical theism (category Problem of evil)
Skeptical theism is the view that people should remain skeptical of their ability to discern whether their perceptions about evil can be considered good...
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Atheism (redirect from The rationality of atheism)
include the lack of evidence, the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument...
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Fideism (category Epistemology of religion)
responded in various ways to the place of faith and reason in determining the truth of metaphysical ideas, morality, and religious beliefs. Historically,...
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Its object was to solve the problem of evil, that is, to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering in the world with the existence of a perfectly good...
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Argument from nonbelief (category Arguments against the existence of God)
simple overview and rebuttal. Responses to the problem of Divine Hiddenness from the website of the Christian Colligation of Apologetics Debate Research...
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Devil (redirect from Prince of Evil)
devil is the mythical personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile...
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Evil is an American supernatural drama television series created by Robert and Michelle King that premiered on September 26, 2019, on CBS, before moving...
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