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The problem of Evil / ed. Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert Merrihew Adams

Secondary Author Adams, Marilyn MacCord
Adams, Robert Merrihew Country Reino Unido. Publication Oxford : Oxford University Press, imp. 1992 Description VIII, 230 p. ; 21 cm Series Oxford Readings in Philosophy ISBN 0-19-824866-0 CDU 111.842

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This collection of important writings fills the need for an anthology that adequately represents recent work on the problem of evil. This is perhaps one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion, and is of perennial interest to philosophers and theologians.

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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
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