Is the God of Traditional Theism Logically Compatible with All the Evil in the World?

• Other Authors: Sterba, James (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; moral evil; natural evil; Free Will Defence; laws of nature; miracles; James P. Sterba; Sterba; problem of evil; John Hick; divine intervention; rights; James Sterba; existence of God; theodicies; ethical principles; Mackie; Plantinga; logical; evidential; evil as privation of the good; God's goodness; concepts of God; classical theism; intervention; permission; deism; compassion; Wittgenstein; grammar; process philosophy; theism; ontological argument; theodicy; metaphysics; free will defense; Alvin Plantinga; David Lewis; Molinism; Open Theism; theological compatibilism; Hugh McCann; J.L. Mackie; Thomas Aquinas; Brian Davies; divine obligations; Richard Swinburne; free will; God; moral; morality; evil; good; moral skepticism; moral epistemology; skeptical theism; modal skepticism; axiological skepticism; ethics; philosophy of religion; horrendous evil; incommensurate good; optimal grace; sanctification; forgiveness; Marilyn Adams; William Hasker; univocity thesis; doctrine of divine transcendence; horrendous evils; compensatory response to the problem of evil; Marilyn McCord Adams; Karl Barth; Duns Scotus; logical argument from evil; Mirandolian theodicy; the sovereignty of humanity; Dostoyevsky on evil; relational conceptions of selfhood; process theology; process theodicy; Charles Hartshorne; n/a
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Is the God of traditional theism logically incompatible with all the evil in the world? In his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? (Palgrave paperback, 2019) James Sterba argues that the God of traditional theism is logically incompatible with especially the horrendous evil consequences of moral...