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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Swinburne |
| ISBN: | 0198237995 9780198237990 0198237987 9780198237983 |
| OCLC Number: | 38862485 |
| Description: | xiii, 263 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. The problem of evil -- 1. The need for theodicy -- 2. Theodicy in Christian tradition -- pt. II. The good goals of creation -- 3. Beauty -- 4. Thought and feeling -- 5. Action -- 6. Worship -- pt. III. The necessary evils -- 7. The fact of moral evil; and free will -- 8. The range of moral evil; and responsibility -- 9. Natural evil and the scope for response -- 10. Natural evil and the possibility of knowledge -- 11. The evils of sin and agnosticism -- Conclusion to part III -- pt. IV. Completing the theodicy -- 12. God's rights -- 13. Weighing good against bad. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Swinburne. |
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Abstract:
Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer so much? This is one of the most difficult problems of religious belief. The author of this text, the third in a tetralogy, examines this problem, and offers his interpretation of the problem.
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