The Problem of Evil

by Adams, Marilyn McCord; Adams, Robert Merrihew

• ISBN13: 9780198248675
• ISBN10: 0198248679
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780198248668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The problem of evil is one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion. For some time, however, there has been a need for a collection of readings that adequately represents recent and ongoing writing on the topic. This volume fills that need, offering the most up-to-date collection of recent scholarship on the problem of evil. The distinguished contributors include J.L. Mackie, Nelson Pike, Roderick M. Chisholm, Terence Penelhum, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Stephen J. Wykstra, John Hick, and Diogenes Allen. Including an introductory essay and a selected bibliography, this comprehensive and completely up-to-date collection is an invaluable guide to current scholarship in this highly debated area of the philosophy of religion. Oxford Readings in Philosophy aims to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Evil and omnipotence

Hume on evil

The defeat of good and evil

Divine goodness and the problem of evil

God, evil, and the metaphysics of freedom

Middle knowledge and the problem of evil

the problem of evil and some varieties of Atheism

The Humean obstacle to evidential arguments from suffering: On avoiding the evils of 'appearance'

Evil and the theistic hypothesis: a response to Wykstra

Soul-making and suffering

Natural evil and the love of God

Horrendous evils and the goodness of God

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index of names

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