Sentences with phrase «philosophical problem of evil»

He gives voice to the philosophical problem of evil perhaps more clearly and cogently than any other speaker or actor, any other philosopher or theologian, in the whole of world literature.

Alvin Plantinga has suggested that we should distinguish the philosophical problem of evil from the pastoral problem of evil.

Not exact matches

Professors James and Alice Boyack of Philander Smith made philosophical issues concrete, and I wrote several papers on the problem of evil and suffering.

Moreover, they answer the great philosophical challenges to believing in God, most notably the Problem of Evil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inEvil: how can a good, all - powerful, all - knowing God produce a world with so much evil inevil in it?

What we are really confronting is the «problem of evil» set in a new philosophical and cultural context.

Only a fool would claim to solve the eternal philosophical «problem of evil» (why God allows suffering), but part of the explanation is that you and I could demonstrate faith.

A study of Griffin's reflections on this topic thus brings the reader face to face with conceptual issues related to this concept that would be worthy of careful philosophical attention even had they no immediate bearing on the traditional problem of evil.

If it is unintelligible (as Griffin and Hartshorne insist that it is), this will not count as a criticism of what Griffin calls «traditional theodicy,» nor will it have any real bearing on the adequacy of various positions taken in the contemporary, philosophical literature on the problem of evil.

Among the many advantages of Whitehead's solution to the problem of evil is his recommendation that the factuality of real evil be included in the assemblage of data which form the basis of philosophical investigation (MT 70f, 109f).

24 See Charles Hartshorne, «A New Look at the Problem of Evil,» Current Philosophical Issues: Essays in Honor of Curt John Ducasse (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publications, 1966), p. 204.

The problem of evil is a well - known philosophical quandary, but we seldom think of goodness as a problem.