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Explaining Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1998

MARK BERNSTEIN
MARK BERNSTEIN
Affiliation:
Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communication, The University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas 78249-0643
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Abstract

In the past few years, the focus of arguments against theism has shifted. Where previously the existence of evil has been thought by many demonstrative of the impossibility of God's existence, now it is frequently purveyed as merely evidence against the existence of a Supreme Being. Even this more modest claim has been forcefully denied by William Alston and Peter van Inwagen. I argue that their arguments are not persuasive. Not only do they suffer logical flaws but, if accepted, actually have pernicious effects on the values of reasoning and religious practice.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 1998 , pp. 151 - 163
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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