Infinity and the Problem of Evil
God seemingly had a duty to create minds each of infinite worth through possessing God-like knowledge. People might object that God's own infinite worth was all that was needed, or that no mind that God created could have truly infinite worth; however, such objections fail. Yet this does not ge...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ Necessity
/ Infinity
/ Evil
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | God seemingly had a duty to create minds each of infinite worth through possessing God-like knowledge. People might object that God's own infinite worth was all that was needed, or that no mind that God created could have truly infinite worth; however, such objections fail. Yet this does not generate an unsolvable Problem of Evil. We could exist inside an infinite mind that was one among endlessly many, perhaps all created by Platonic Necessity. "God" might be our name for this Necessity, or for the infinite mind inside which we existed, or for an infinite ocean of infinite minds. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v11i2.2973 |