God, the best, and evil
By: Bruce Langtry.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780199238798
Subjects: Providence and government of God -- Christianity; Theodicy; Good and evil
Description: "God, the Best, and Evil is an original treatment of some longstanding problems about God and his actions towards human beings. First, Bruce Langtry explores some implications of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness for God's providence. In particular, he investigates whether God is in some sense a maximizer, Second, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that are based on the apparent fact that God could have created a better world than this one. Finally, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that focus on the problem of evil."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Problems, concepts, and background theories; title: God and worlds than which there are none better; title: Divine choice from infinite hierarchies of creatable worlds; title: World creation when there are prime worlds; title: Empirical objections to theism, not based on evil; title: Logical arguments from evil, against the existence of God; title: Theodicy for two general truths about evil; title: Evidential arguments from evil, against the existence of God.