The problem of evil
Subtitle: the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews in 2003
By: Peter van Inwagen.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780199245604
Subjects: God -- Proof; Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Theodicy
Description: The vast amount of suffering in the world is often held as a particularly powerful reason to deny that God exists. Now, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers of religion presents his own position on the problem of evil. Highly accessible and sensitively argued, Peter van Inwagen's book argues that such reasoning does not hold: his conclusion is not that God exists, but that suffering cannot be shown to prove that He does not.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-180)) and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of evil and the argument from evil; title: The idea of God; title: Philosophical failure; title: The global argument from evil; title: The global argument continued; title: The local argument from evil; title: The sufferings of beasts; title: The hiddenness of God.