Encountering Evil: The Evil-god Challenge from Religious Experience
It is often thought that religious experiences provide support for the cumulative case for the existence of the God of classical monotheism. In this paper, I formulate an Evil-god challenge that invites classical monotheists to explain why, based on evidence from religious experience, the belief in...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue - Evolutionary Research on Morality and Theological Ethics |
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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
[2020]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 137-161 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Evil
/ Attributes of God
/ The Good
/ Religious experience
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Miracle
B Religious Experience B Evil B arguments for God's existence B Good B God |
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| Summary: | It is often thought that religious experiences provide support for the cumulative case for the existence of the God of classical monotheism. In this paper, I formulate an Evil-god challenge that invites classical monotheists to explain why, based on evidence from religious experience, the belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent god (Good-god) is significantly more reasonable than the belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, evil god (Evil-god). I demonstrate that religious experiences substantiate the existence of Evil-god more so than they do the existence of Good-god, and, consequently, that the traditional argument from religious experience fails: it should not be included in the cumulative case for the existence of Good-god. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v0i0.2617 |