Bryan Frances

Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil (eBook, PDF)

A Comprehensive Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil: A Comprehensive Introduction is among the first book-length discussions of theistic approaches to the problem of evil. Bryan Frances's lucid analyses of a variety of possible responses to the problem of evil will provide serious students or general readers much material with which to consider this ancient and contemporary concern.

The book offers many useful pedagogical features, including chapter overviews, study questions, summaries, and suggested readings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135096762
• Artikelnr.: 38253151

Autorenporträt

Bryan Frances is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction 1.The Need for Trustworthiness and Competence 2.
Foreshadowing 3. Suggested Further Reading II. The Question is: Is There
Gratuitous Suffering That Rules Out God? 1. The Problem of Gratuitous
Suffering 2. The Gratuitous Premise 3. The Consequence Premise 4. The
Logical Problem of Suffering 5. The Problem of the Inferior Universe III.
Possible Theistic Responses to the Question 1. The Logic of Responses 2.
The Five Approaches 3. Faith as a Response 4. Ignorance IV. The Confident
Knowledge of God 1. What the Approach Says 2. Criticisms of the Approach 3.
Evidence for the Approach 3(a). The Design Argument 3(b). The Cosmological
Argument 3(c). The Social Argument 4. Lessons IV. God Permits Gratuitous
Suffering 1. What the Approach Says 2. Criticisms of the Approach V. God's
Reasons for Suffering Revealed 1. What the Approach Says 2. Knowledge 3.
Free Will 4. Soul-Making 5. Afterlife 6. Original Sin 7. Lawfulness 8.
Motivation 9. Divine Suffering 10 Lessons VI. Our Inability to see God's
Plan 1. What the Approach Says 2. Criticisms of the Approach 3. Modifying
the Approach 4. Lessons VII. God is not What You Think He Is 1. What the
Approach Says 2. Conception of God as Unconscious 3. Conception of God as
Morally Bad 4. Conception of God as Morally Unassessable 5. Conception of
God as Epistemically Deficient 6. Conception of God as Weak 7. Conception
of God as Non-Individual 8. Conception of God Involving Analogy VIII.
Warranted and Unwarranted ConclusionsINDEX