Problems of Evil and the Power of God
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Divine Hiddenness
divine providence
Dramatic Miracles
Epistemic Distance
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Evil Human Actions
Fawn's Suffering
Fawn’s Suffering
General Policy Considerations
God's Goal
God's Hiddenness
God’s Goal
Gratuitous Evil
Hasker's Argument
Hasker’s Argument
Human Defectiveness
Human Suffering
Ignorance Defense
Obvious Miracle
omnipotence debate
Outweighing Goods
philosophical theology
Plantinga's Model
Plantinga’s Model
process theism and evil solutions
process theology
Psychological Connectedness
religious epistemology
Rowe's Argument
Rowe’s Argument
Specific Case Reasons
theodicy
Unilaterally Determine
Vice Versa
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- ISBN 9780754658085
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why do bad things happen, even to good people? If there is a God, why aren't God's existence and God's will for humans more apparent? And if God really does miracles for some people, why not for others? This book examines these three problems of evil - suffering, divine hiddenness, and unfairness if miracles happen as believers claim - to explore how different ideas of God's power relate to the problem of evil. Keller argues that as long as God is believed to be all-powerful, there are no adequate answers to these problems, nor is it enough for theists simply to claim that human ignorance makes these problems insoluble. Arguing that there are no good grounds for the belief that God is all-powerful, Keller instead defends the understanding of God and God's power found in process theism and shows how it makes possible an adequate solution to the problems of evil while providing a concept of God that is religiously adequate.
James A. Keller, Ph.D. Yale University, is Samuel Pate Gardner Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. He is Book Review Editor for the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
