Why not believe in an evil God? Pragmatic encroachment and some implications for philosophy of religion
Pointing to broad symmetries between the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all-good, and the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, but all-evil, the evil-God challenge raises the question of why theists should prefer one over the other. I respond to this challenge by drawing on a recen...
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Religious studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 345-360 |
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