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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: God Beyond Belief
    sub title: In Defence of William Rowe'S Evidential Argument from Evil
  name:
    name part: Trakakis, Nick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 376 p. online resource.
  abstract: Why would a loving God who is all-powerful and all-knowing create a world like ours which is marred by all manner of evil, suffering and injustice? This question has come to be known as ‘the problem of evil’ and has troubled both ordinary folk and specialist philosophers and theologians for centuries, with no answer seemingly in sight. However, in a series of publications from the late 1970s onwards, Professor William Rowe – one of the leading philosophers of religion today – has put forward a powerful case in support of the view that the horrors littering our planet constitute strong evidence against the existence of God. In this book, the first extended study of Rowe’s defense of atheism on the basis of evil, Nick Trakakis comprehensively assesses the large body of literature that has developed in response to Rowe’s work, paying particular attention to two strategies employed by critics: firstly, the appeal to mystery – the idea that God may well have reasons for permitting evil that lie beyond our comprehension; and secondly, the appeal to theodicies, where this involves offering explanations as to why God allows evil to abound in his creation (free will theodicies, for example, argue that God could not prevent us from acting wrongly without at the same time curtailing or removing our free will). Trakakis unearths significant difficulties in both strategies, and concludes that – absent any evidence in support of theism – the God of theism must be judged to be "beyond belief".
  table of contents: Background to the Problem of Evil -- Rowe's Evidential Arguments from Evil -- What No Eye Has Seen: The Epistemic Foundations of Wykstra's CORNEA Critique -- CORNEA Applied to Rowe's Evidential Argument -- Further Objections to Rowe's Noseeum Assumption -- In Support of the Inference from Inscrutable to Pointless Evil -- The Problem of Divine Hiddenness -- Meta-Theodicy: Adequacy Conditions for Theodicy -- Theodicy Proper, or Casting Light on the Ways of God: Horrendous Moral Evil -- Theodicies for Natural Evil -- The Compatibility of Gratuitous Evil with Theism -- Conclusion: Is Rowe's Evidential Argument Successful?.
  note: by Nick Trakakis.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Studies in Philosophy and Religion ; 27
  identifier: 9781402051456
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5145-X
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204172620.0
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