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9780631222217

God and the Problem of Evil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631222217

  • ISBN10:

    0631222219

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-07-16
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

God and the Problem of Evil brings together influential essays on the question of whether the amount of seemingly pointless malice and suffering in our world counts against the rationality of belief in God, a being who is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good.

Author Biography

William L. Rowe is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of The Cosmological Argument (1998), Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction (third edition, 2001), and co-editor of Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings (third edition, 1999). He has served on the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and was elected President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association for 1986-87.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Part I Historically Important Essays and Contemporary Responses 1(74)
Introduction to Part I
Theodicy
4(20)
Gottfired Wilhelm Leibniz
Must God Create the Best?
24(14)
Robert Merrihew Adams
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
38(19)
David Hume
Hume on Evil
57(18)
Nelson Pike
Part II The Logical Problem of Evil 75(46)
Introduction to Part II
Evil and Omnipotence
77(14)
J. L. Mackie
The Free Will Defense
91(30)
Alvin Plantinga
Part III The Evidential Problem of Evil 121(114)
Introduction to Part III
An Exchange on the Problem of Evil
124(35)
Daniel Howard-Synder
Michael Bergmann
William L. Rowe
Stalemate and Strategy: Rethinking the Evidential Argument from Evil
159(21)
J. L. Schellenberg
Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists
180(23)
Paul Draper
The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence
203(32)
Peter van Inwagen
Part IV Theodicies 235(75)
Introduction to Part IV
Some Major Stands of Theodicy
240(25)
Richard Swinburne
Soul-Making Theodicy
265(17)
John Hick
The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians
282(28)
Marilyn McCord Adams
Index 310

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