Autore	Braiterman Zachary <1963->
Edizione	[Core Textbook]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (219 p.)
Disciplina	296.3/1174
Soggetto topico	Holocaust (Jewish theology) Theodicy Judaism - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4008-2276-9 1-282-93521-6 9786612935213 1-4008-1112-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Modernity Surpassed: Jewish Religious Thought after Auschwitz -- PART I -- ONE. Theodicy and Its Others: Forms of Religious Response to the Problem of Evil -- TWO. Anti/Theodicy: In Bible and Midrash -- THREE. Theodicies: In Modern Jewish Thought -- PART II -- FOUR. "Hitler's Accomplice"?! Revisioning Richard Rubenstein -- FIVE. Do I Belong to the Race of Words? Anti/Theodic Faith and Textual Revision in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits -- SIX. Why Is the World Today Not Water? Revelation, Fragmentation, and Solidarity in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim -- CONCLUSION. Discourse, Sign, Diptych: Remarks on Jewish Thought after Auschwitz -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455488903321

Autore	Allestree Richard <1619-1681.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London printed, : [s.n.], 1682
Descrizione fisica	[6], 113, [1] p
Soggetto topico	Contentment Theodicy
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-996394223603316

Autore	Pinnock Sarah K
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina	296.3/118
Collana	SUNY series in theology and continental thought
Soggetto topico	Holocaust (Jewish theology) Holocaust (Christian theology) Theodicy Political science - Philosophy Existentialism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7914-8780-6 0-585-48928-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456190403321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (528 pages)
Disciplina	214
Altri autori (Persone)	McBrayerJustin P Howard-SnyderDaniel
Soggetto topico	Theodicy Good and evil
ISBN	1-78684-601-2 1-118-60800-3 1-118-60797-X 1-118-60806-2 1-118-60801-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: PROBLEMS OF EVIL -- 1: A Brief History of Problems of Evil -- Introduction -- Another Footnote to Plato -- "Epicurus' Old Questions" and Ancient Skepticism -- Augustine and the Manichean Problem of Evil -- The Argument from Evil in Aquinas's Summa -- Calvin, Descartes, and the Early-Modern Obsession with Evil -- Bayle and the Insolubility of the Problem of Evil -- The First Logical and Evidential Arguments from Evil -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 2: The Logical Problem of Evil: Mackie and Plantinga -- Mackie's Logical Problem of Evil -- Plantinga's Free Will Defense -- Assessing Plantinga's Free Will Defense -- Interworld Plenitude and Intraworld Plenitude -- Two Objections -- 3: A New Logical Problem of Evil -- Three Commitments of Theism -- Developing the Proof: The Modeling Approach -- Developing the Proof: The Motives Approach -- Some Final Objections -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 4: Rowe's Evidential Arguments from Evil -- Two Cases -- Rowe's Arguments -- Initial Comments on Rowe's Arguments -- Framework and Assessment -- A Central Issue -- A Further Consideration -- Acknowledgments -- 5: Explanation and the Problem of Evil -- Humean Arguments from Evil (by Paul Draper) -- Reflections on Explanation and Draper's Argument (by Trent Dougherty) -- 6: A Carnapian Argument from Evil -- Tooley's First Argument -- Tooley's Second Argument -- Problems Facing Tooley's Second Argument -- Problems Facing Tooley's First Argument -- Conclusion -- 7: The Experience of Evil and Support for Atheism -- Richard Swinburne's Principle of Credulity -- William Alston's Doxastic Practice Approach -- Alvin Plantinga's Proper Functionalism -- Acceptance and Provisional Acceptance -- Noetic Reconstruction -- Value-Attitude Reformation. Why Mediated Support Works -- Acknowledgments -- 8: The Problem of Animal Pain and Suffering -- Neo-Cartesian Defenses -- Why the Neo-Cartesian Defenses Fail -- Nomic Regularity and the Progression from Chaos to Order -- Concluding Remarks -- 9: Hell and the Problem of Evil -- Introduction -- The Problem Stated -- The Traditional View of Hell -- The Vagueness Objection -- The Proportionality Objection -- Nontraditional Views of Hell -- The Choice Model -- Universalist Strategies -- Acknowledgment -- 10: The Problem of Apparently Morally Abhorrent Divine Commands -- Richard Swinburne and the Canaanites -- Eleonore Stump and the Amalekites -- Inscrutable Reasons? Unknown Goods? -- Acknowledgment -- 11: God Because of Evil: A Pragmatic Argument from Evil for Belief in God -- The Argument -- Entrenched Practices and Attitudes -- Realism -- Horrendous Evils -- Ad Hominem Argument, Asserted -- Nontheistic Alternatives -- Personality, How Fundamental? -- God Because of Evils? -- Part II: THEODICIES -- 12: A Brief History of Theodicy -- Irenaeus (circa 130-202) and Soul-Making -- St. Augustine (354-430), Privatio Boni, and Free Will -- Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Best of All Possible Worlds -- Joseph Butler (1692-1752) and the Imperfect Comprehension of God's Government -- George W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) and the Cunning of Reason -- C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Free Will, and God's Megaphone -- A.C. Ewing (1899-1973) and the Principle of Organic Unities -- Alvin Plantinga (b.1937), Free Will Defense, and "O Felix Culpa" Theodicy -- Richard Swinburne (b. 1934) and the Goods that Outweigh Evil -- Looking Back -- Acknowledgments -- 13: Counterpart and Appreciation Theodicies -- Necessary Conditions for a Successful Theodicy -- The Counterpart Theodicy -- The Appreciation Theodicy -- Acknowledgments -- 14: Free Will and Soul-Making Theodicies -- Hick's Theodicy. Hick on Free Will -- Hick on Soul-Making -- Swinburne's Theodicy -- Swinburne on Free Will -- Swinburne on Soul-Making -- Challenges Facing Free Will and Soul-Making Theodicies -- The Challenges of Free Will -- The Challenges of Soul-Making -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 15: The Connection-Building Theodicy -- Introduction -- The CBT Explained -- Fruitfulness and Implications -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 16: Best Possible World Theodicy -- Three Puzzles and Their Independence -- Motivating the Puzzles for Theists -- The Hypothesis of a Best Possible World: The Letter and the Spirit -- The Multiverse -- The Multiverse and the Second and Third Inconsistent Triads -- The Multiverse and the First Inconsistent Triad -- Acknowledgments -- 17: Providence and Theodicy -- Introduction -- Three Theories of Providence -- Theodicies, Defenses, and Theories of Providence -- A Patently Partisan Epilogue -- Acknowledgment -- 18: A Christian Theodicy -- The Character of Religious Experience -- Suffering as Religious Experience -- The Value of Relationships -- Divine Passibility -- Problems for the Divine Intimacy Theodicy -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 19: Toward an Indian Theodicy -- The Psychology of Karma -- Nyāya School of Logic and Theism -- The Vedānta Theodicy -- Conclusion -- 20: Earth's Epistemic Fruits for Harmony with God: An Islamic Theodicy -- Introduction -- The Best Life Depending on Harmony with God -- Submission to God as the Necessary Condition for a Good Human Life (The Meaning of Islam) -- Human Epistemic Privilege and the Need to Be Trained -- God's Epistemic Aid -- The Epistemic Fruits of the Earthly Testing Ground -- Acknowledgments -- 21: On Constructing a Jewish Theodicy -- Retribution -- Atonement, Trial, Sufferings of Love -- Mazzal -- Kabbalistic Views -- Soul-Making Theodicy. Antitheodicy: The "Halakhic" or Existentialist Response -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- 22: Feminism and the Problem of Evil -- Introduction -- Defining Feminism -- Women and Evil -- Gendering the Subject -- Structural Nature of Evil -- Challenging the "Purpose" of Evil -- Evil in Relationships -- Evil and the Concept of God -- Conclusion -- 23: Process Theism and Theodicies for Problems of Evil -- Traditional Theodicy -- Process Theodicy -- 24: Theodicy in a Vale of Tears -- Methodological Preliminaries -- Classifying Theodicies -- Stump's Theodicy -- Reply to Stump -- Stump: Further Reflections -- Nothing But the Best -- The Objection from Divine Simplicity -- The Plenum Objection -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- 25: Antitheodicy -- The Morality of Theodicy -- Nonmoral Objections to Theodicy -- Acknowledgments -- Part III: SKEPTICAL RESPONSES -- 26: A Brief History of Skeptical Responses to Evil -- Introduction: Contemporary Skeptical Responses Contextualized -- Skeptical Theism and the Book of Job -- Medieval Commentaries on Job -- Skeptical Theism and Apophatic Theology -- Cartesian Skepticism -- Conclusion -- 27: Peter van Inwagen's Defense -- Van Inwagen and Skeptical Theism -- Pointless Evils and Practical Sorites Problems -- Objections to van Inwagen's Defense -- Applications: Universalism and the Fall -- Acknowledgments -- 28: A Defense Without Free Will -- Skepticism about Free Will -- The Free Will Theodicy -- The Retributive Punishment Theodicy -- Agnosticism (or Skeptical Theism) -- Defense Hypotheses the Free Will Skeptic Can Accept and which are Compatible with Morality -- Acknowledgment -- 29: Skeptical Theism, CORNEA, and Common Sense Epistemology -- Introduction -- Skeptical Theism -- CORNEA -- Objections to CORNEA: Closure and Induction -- Skeptical Theism and Common-Sense Epistemology -- Conclusion. 30: The Moral Skepticism Objection to Skeptical Theism -- The Evidential Argument from Evil -- Skeptical Theism -- Skeptical Theism and Radical Skepticism -- Skeptical Theism and Moral Obligation -- Skeptical Theism and God's Commands -- Acknowledgments -- 31: The Global Skepticism Objection to Skeptical Theism -- Skeptical Theism and Knowledge of God -- Skeptical Theism and Knowledge in General -- Acknowledgments -- 32: Theistic Objections to Skeptical Theism -- The Evidential Argument from Evil -- Skeptical Theism -- Problems for Beliefs about Sin and Morality -- Problems for the Theology of Divine Goodness -- Problems for Natural Theology -- Problems for Belief in Miracles -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- 33: Skeptical Theism and the "Too Much Skepticism" Objection -- What Is Skeptical Theism? -- The Too-Much-Skepticism Objection -- Global Skepticism -- Skepticism About Value -- Skepticism About (Other) Knowledge of God -- Moral Paralysis -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Autore	Stackhouse John G., Jr., <1960->
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 196 pages)
Disciplina	231/.8
Collana	Oxford scholarship online
Soggetto topico	Theodicy Good and evil Trust in God - Christianity
ISBN	0-19-773847-8 0-19-028351-3 1-280-52963-6 0-19-802777-X 1-4294-0018-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Is There a Problem?; CHAPTER TWO: What Is Evil?; CHAPTER THREE: Further Problems; CHAPTER FOUR: Other Angles; CHAPTER FIVE: A Good World After All?; CHAPTER SIX: The Fork in the Road; CHAPTER SEVEN: Thinking and Living; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910815017603321