Author : David O'Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847687640
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis God and Inscrutable Evil by : David O'Connor
Download or read book God and Inscrutable Evil written by David O'Connor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new book, David O'Connor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil, perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism ("friendly theism") and a version of atheism ("friendly atheism") are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil, O'Connor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical detente between those two positions. On the way to that conclusion he develops two arguments from evil, a reformed version of the logical argument and an indirect version of the empirical argument, and deploys both against a central formulation of theism that he describes as orthodox theism. God and Inscrutable Evil makes a valuable contribution to contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion.