Showing papers on "Skeptical theism published in 1998"

Providence and the problem of evil

Abstract: INTRODUCTION PART I: AN INITIAL PROBLEM: 1: THE NEED FOR THEODICY PART II: THE GOOD GOALS OF CREATION: 2: BEAUTY 3: FEELING 4: ACTION 5: WORSHIP PART III: THE NECESSARY EVILS: 6: THE FACT OF MORAL EVIL AND FREE WILL 7: THE RANGE OF MORAL EVIL AND RESPONSIBILITY 8: NATURAL EVIL AND THE SCOPE FOR RESPONSE 9: NATURAL EVIL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF KNOWLEDGE 10: THE EVILS OF SIN AND AGNOSTICISM PART IV: COMPLETING THE THEODICY: 11: GOD'S RIGHTS AND THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVICE 12: WEIGHING GOOD AGAINST BAD EPILOGUE

The Evidential Argument from Evil

Abstract: Preface Introduction: The Evidential Argument from Evil/Daniel Howard-Snyder The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism/William L. Rowe Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists/Paul draper Some Major Strands of Theodicy/Richard G. Swinburne Aquinas on the Sufferings of Job/Eleonore Stump Epistemic Probability and Evil/Alvin Plantinga The Inductive Argument from evil and the Human Cognitive Condition/William P. Alston Rowe(R)s Noseeum Arguments from Evil/Stephen Wypkstra The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence/Peter van Inwagen The Skeptical Theist/Paul Draper Defenseless/Bruce Russell Some Difficulties in Theistic Treatments of Evil/Richard Gale Reflections on the Essays of Draper, Russell, and Gale/Peter van Inwagen On being Evidentially Challenged/Alvin Plantinga The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look/William L. Rowe The Argument from Inscrutable Evil/Daniel Howard-Snyder Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential ARguments from Evil/William P. Alston Bibliography Contributors Index