Ebooks

The God Beyond Belief In Defence of William Rowes Evidential Argument from Evil eBook

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• Rate this torrent +  |  -

Torrent info

Torrent Files List

Torrent description

EBooks Share TEAM

# Hardcover: 276 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (November 29, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1402051441
# ISBN-13: 978-1402051449

Product Description

Why would a loving God who is all-powerful and all-knowing create a world like ours which is marred by all manner of evil, suffering and injustice? This question has come to be known as the problem of evil and has troubled both ordinary folk and specialist philosophers and theologians for centuries, with no answer seemingly in sight.

However, in a series of publications from the late 1970s onwards, Professor William Rowe  one of the leading philosophers of religion today  has put forward a powerful case in support of the view that the horrors littering our planet constitute strong evidence against the existence of God. In this book, the first extended study of Rowes defense of atheism on the basis of evil, Nick Trakakis comprehensively assesses the large body of literature that has developed in response to Rowes work, paying particular attention to two strategies employed by critics: firstly, the appeal to mystery  the idea that God may well have reasons for permitting evil that lie beyond our comprehension; and secondly, the appeal to theodicies, where this involves offering explanations as to why God allows evil to abound in his creation (free will theodicies, for example, argue that God could not prevent us from acting wrongly without at the same time curtailing or removing our free will). Trakakis unearths significant difficulties in both strategies, and concludes that  absent any evidence in support of theism  the God of theism must be judged to be \\\"beyond belief\\\".


EBooks Share TEAM

related torrents

comments (0)