B. Kyle Keltz

Bringing Good Even Out of Evil (eBook, ePUB)

Thomism and the Problem of Evil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The question of whether the existence of evil in the world is compatible with the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God has been debated for centuries. Many have addressed classical arguments from evil, and while recent scholarship in analytic philosophy of religion has produced newer formulations of the problem, most of these newer formulations rely on a conception of God that is not held by all theists. In Bringing Good Even Out of Evil: Thomism and the Problem of Evil, B. Kyle Keltz defends classical theism against contemporary problems of evil through the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his interpreters. Keltz discusses Aquinas's thought on God, evil, and what kind of world God would make, then turns to contemporary problems of evil and shows how they miss the mark when it comes to classical theism. Some of the newer formulations that the book considers include James Sterba's argument from the Pauline principle, J. L. Schellenberg's divine hiddenness argument, Stephen Law's evil-god challenge, and Nick Trakakis's anti-theodicy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793638939
• Artikelnr.: 66867799

Autorenporträt

B. Kyle Keltz is associate professor of English and philosophy at South Plains College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: Aquinas on God and Evil
Chapter Two: Aquinas and Natural Evil
Chapter Three: Aquinas and Moral Evil
Chapter Four: Logical Arguments from Evil
Chapter Five: Evidential Arguments from Evil
Chapter Six: Anti-Theodicies
Conclusion