Are skeptical theists really skeptics? Sometimes yes and sometimes no
Skeptical theism is the view that God exists but, given our cognitive limitations, the fact that we cannot see a compensating good for some instance of evil is not a reason to think that there is no such good. Hence, we are not justified in concluding that any actual instance of evil is gratuitous,...
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2012, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-16 |
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B Atheism B Interest-relative invariantism B Skeptical theism B Argument from evil B Contextualism |
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