God and inscrutable evil : in defense of theism and atheism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. |
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| Summary: | In this important new book, David O'Connor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil, perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism ("friendly theism") and a version of atheism ("friendly atheism") are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil, O'Connor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical dètente between those two positions. On the way to that conclusion he develops two arguments from evil, a reformed version of the logical argument and an indirect version of the empirical argument, and deploys both against a central formulation of theism that he describes as orthodox theism. God and Inscrutable Evil makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 273 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0847687635 0847687643 |
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