Problem of Evil and the Problem of God

Name: Problem of Evil and the Problem of God
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ISBN: 9780800637750

ISBN-10: 0800637755

ISBN-13: 9780800637750

Edition: N/A

Authors: D. Z. Phillips

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Creative and original, here is D. Z. Phillips's most systematic attempt to address the problem of evil. He argues that the problem is inextricably linked to our conception of God and that the concept of God in recent philosophy of religion is problematic, even harmful. That intellectual inheritance, he claims, attempts to distinguish between logical and existential problems of evil and offers us distorted accounts of God's omnipotence and will. As a result, God is ridiculed out of existence or found unfit before the bar of decency. Yet Phillips elucidates in a second part a neglected tradition in which we reach a different understanding of God's presence amid suffering and which addresses…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 6/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.64" wide x 8.54" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction : on telling the problem of evil



Logic and omnipotence



Logic and God's will



God's morally insufficient reasons



The free-will defence


Interlude : where do we go from here?



God unmasked



Goodbye God



God, contracts and covenants



God's absence and presence



Faith and expectation



Sacrifice



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