How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy

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作者：
Johnston, Mark [1 ]
机构：
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Philosophy, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
来源：
RELIGIONS | 2023年 / 14卷 / 03期
关键词：
God; Neo-Platonism; the problem of evil; the free will defense; God's reason for creating; the Principle of Sufficient Reason; why there is something rather than nothing; modal argument for God's existence; the origin of evil; omnipotence; abjuration; the mismatch between God's reasons for creating and the total face of the material universe; fine-tuning as demiurgic work; negative demiurgy; holiness; the Beatific Vision; God's redemptive back-up plan; grace; the importance of a community of grace;
D O I：
10.3390/rel14030402
中图分类号：
B9 [宗教];
学科分类号：
010107 ;
摘要：
James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God. There is a hidden assumption in Sterba's reasoning, involving an inference from God being able to do anything metaphysically possible (omnipotence) to his being, after creation, able to prevent evil. As what follows shows, that isn't a purely logical matter. It depends on ruling out a determinate theological account of how creation limits what is then metaphysically possible for God, an account set out in detail below. So Sterba's argument is not deductively valid, unless that account is incoherent. Accordingly, we are back in the realm of total judgments of theoretical plausibility, and the effects of God-given grace on what then will strike one as the right view to live by.
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