The Problem of Evil

Eight Views in Dialogue

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882162-5 (ISBN)

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Eight leading philosophers of religion debate 'the problem of evil' - the problem of reconciling the existence of a perfectly good and loving God with the existence of sin and suffering in the world. Their dialogues explore a range of imaginative and innovative approaches to the nature of divinity and its relationship to evil.

One of those rare questions in philosophy that is not only technically recalcitrant but also engages the hearts and minds of the broad community is the so-called 'problem of evil': How can the existence of an absolutely perfect God be reconciled with the existence of suffering and evil? This collection of dialogues between eight philosophers of religion explores new ways of thinking about this longstanding problem, in the process reorienting and reinvigorating the philosophical debate around the relationship between God, goodness and evil: How exactly are these three notions connected, if at all? Is God the cause, or author, of evil and suffering? How is the goodness of God to be understood, and how is divine goodness related to human morality? Does God's perfect goodness entail that God must have reasons for permitting or bringing about suffering, and if so what could his reasons be?

These questions are of momentous existential and theoretical interest, and they have exercised the finest intellects across the centuries. The time is ripe for a wholesale reconsideration of the problem of evil. To make progress towards this goal, eight distinct perspectives are placed in mutual dialogue, giving voice to both traditional and relatively unorthodox approaches. What emerges from these critical but friendly exchanges is a diversity of fruitful and innovative ways of thinking about the nature of divinity and its relationship to evil.

N.N. Trakakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He has authored The God Beyond Belief (Springer, 2007) and The End of Philosophy of Religion (Continuum, 2008). He has also co-edited, with Graham Oppy, the five-volume History of Western Philosophy of Religion (Acumen, 2009) and the two-volume History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (Springer, 2014).

Introduction
1: Eleonore Stump: The Problem of Suffering: A Thomistic Approach
Responses by Bishop, Oppy, and Trakakis
Replies by Stump
2: John Bishop: On Identifying the Problem of Evil and the Possibility of Its Theist Solution
Responses by Stump, Oppy, and Trakakis
Replies by Bishop
3: Graham Oppy: Problems of Evil
Responses by Stump, Bishop, and Trakakis
Reply by Oppy
4: N. N. Trakakis: Anti-Theodicy
Responses by Stump, Bishop, and Oppy
Replies by Trakakis
5: Beverley Clack: Evil, Feminism and a Philosophy of Transformation
Responses by Nagasawa, Tilley, and Gleeson
Replies by Clack
6: Yujin Nagasawa: The Problem of Evil for Atheists
Responses by Clack, Tilley, and Gleeson
Replies by Nagasawa
7: Terrence W. Tilley: A Trajectory of Positions
Responses by Clack, Nagasawa, and Gleeson
Replies by Tilley
8: Andrew Gleeson: God and Evil Without Theodicy
Responses by Clack, Nagasawa, and Tilley
Replies by Gleeson

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 242 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-882162-X / 019882162X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882162-5 / 9780198821625
Zustand	Neuware