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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context. Responses to the problem of evil have traditionally been in three types: refutations, defenses, and theodicies. The problem of evil is generally...
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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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Theodicy (redirect from God and evil)
argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil that arises when all power and all goodness are simultaneously ascribed to God. Unlike a defence...
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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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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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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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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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four-episode fifth and final season, that is set to premiere the week after the end of season 4. Evil has received critical acclaim, with particular praise...
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Omnibenevolence (category Problem of evil)
of religion, mainly in context of the problem of evil and theodical responses to such, although even in said contexts the phrases "perfect goodness" and...
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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. The belief in the evil eye among humans...
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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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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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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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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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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 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 (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
The presence of all these properties in a single entity has given rise to considerable theological debate, prominently including the problem of evil,...
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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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Anthony B. Pinn (category Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from February 2024)
in the Study of Religion at Harvard University in 1994. His dissertation was entitled "I Wonder as I Wander: An Examination of the Problem of Evil in...
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enable our lives, and all of life, and that cause all things to be are as they are. As such, nature can prompt religious responses, which can vary for each...
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the varieties of religious experience, the interplay between science and religion, the nature and scope of good and evil, and religious treatments of...
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Omnipotence paradox (redirect from Problem of omnipotence)
it?" Ned is unable to answer this paradox. Philosophy portal Religion portal Gödel's incompleteness theorems Problem of evil List of paradoxes "אמונות...
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Argument from nonbelief (category Arguments against the existence of God)
inconsistency between the existence of God and a world in which people fail to recognize him. It is similar to the classic argument from evil in affirming an...
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Richard Swinburne (category Nolloth Professors of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion)
ISBN 978-0-19-958043-9 Simplicity as Evidence of Truth, The Aquinas Lecture, 1997 Providence and the Problem of Evil, 1998 (part 4 of his tetralogy on Christian Doctrines)...
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Karma (redirect from The Karmic)
and the problem of evil, Philosophy East & West, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 15–32 Chadha and Trakakis (2007), Karma and the Problem of Evil: A Response to Kaufman...
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and evil" is a common dichotomy. In religions with Manichaean and Abrahamic influence, evil is perceived as the dualistic antagonistic opposite of good...
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to a special Church archive; Lumumba tells them they will be visiting 199 other evil sites, with the help of a map Amorth discovered at the abbey, to...
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against the existence of God, and is generally accepted to be an extension or sub-section of the problem of evil. In the Bible, Paul the Apostle teaches that...
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