The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient...
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The standard problem of evil found in monotheistic religions does not apply to almost all traditions of Hinduism because it does not posit an omniscient...
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Religious responses to the problem of evil are concerned with reconciling the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient...
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Karma (section The problem of evil)
about karma theory and how it answers the problem of evil and related problem of theodicy. The problem of evil is a significant question debated in monotheistic...
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The Problem of Pain is a 1940 book on the problem of evil by C. S. Lewis, in which Lewis argues that human pain, animal pain, and hell are not sufficient...
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Epicurean paradox (redirect from Riddle of Epicurus)
logical dilemma about the problem of evil attributed to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who argued against the existence of a god who is simultaneously...
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Evolutionary theodicy (section Problem of evil)
Evolutionary theodicies are responses to the question of animal suffering as an aspect of the problem of evil. These theodicies assert that a universe which...
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The Bible and violence (section The problem of evil)
variety of views interpreting biblical texts on violence theologically and sociologically. The problem of evil, violence against women, the absence of violence...
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response to the practices of Nazi Germany, Hannah Arendt concluded that "the problem of evil would be the fundamental problem of postwar intellectual life...
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Ragland of Saint Louis University writes in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy that the problem of hell is "a version of" the problem of evil. He defines...
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Irenaean theodicy (section Evidential problem of evil)
problem of evil). It defends the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (all-powerful and perfectly loving) God in the face of evidence of evil...
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Dystheism (redirect from God is evil and hates me)
theology Misotheism Moralistic therapeutic deism Names of God Outline of theology Problem of evil Problem of Hell Satanic Verses Theistic Satanism Theodicy Urmonotheismus...
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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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the evidential problem of evil. The book argues for theistic finitism. Kushner proposes a finite God solution to the problem of evil. God is benevolent...
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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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Theodicy (redirect from God and evil)
δίκη dikē, "justice") is an argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil that arises when all power and all goodness are simultaneously ascribed...
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Brian Davies (philosopher) (category Academics of the University of Oxford)
York, 2003) The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (Continuum: London and New York, 2006) Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil (Oxford University Press:...
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Alvin Plantinga (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
to refute the logical problem of evil, the argument that the existence of evil is logically incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient...
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of the problem of evil is the evidential problem of evil, which argues that while the existence of evil may not logically disprove the existence of God...
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of evil that is not accepted by many theists. Rebutting Andrews's characterization of evil as presented in his "A Response to the Problem of an 'Evil...
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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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Atheism (redirect from The rationality of atheism)
in deities include the lack of evidence, the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified...
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Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense (redirect from Alvin Plantinga's version of the free will defense)
version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L...
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light, using her journey to explore the problem of evil and the nature versus nurture debate, as well as themes of terrorism, propaganda, and existential...
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Misotheism (redirect from Hatred of God)
context of theodicy (the problem of evil, the Euthyphro dilemma) or as a rejection or criticism of particular depictions or attributions of the monotheistic...
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stated as that evil ought to be regarded as nothing, or as something non-existent. It is often associated with a version of the problem of evil: if some things...
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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, all-powerful...
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Gregory S. Paul (redirect from Predatory Dinosaurs of the World)
editor of The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs (2000). Paul's contributions are also notable in the philosophical realm of the problem of evil. Paul...
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Augustinian theodicy (category Augustine of Hippo)
and philosopher Augustine of Hippo, is a type of Christian theodicy that developed in response to the evidential problem of evil. As such, it attempts to...
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Maimonides (redirect from Teaching of Moses Maimonides)
types of evil in the world: evil caused by nature, evil that people bring upon others, and evil man brings upon himself (Guide 3:12). The first type of evil...
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