Philosophy

3. God and the World: The Problem of Evil Learners will study the challenge posed to religious belief by the problems…

Here is a list of possible exam questions for H573/1 section of the specification, using the guidance in the specification and…

source The Problem of Evil The existence of bad or evil things isn’t hard to explain for non-theists—human beings and the…

Andrew Capone discusses issues surrounding the existence of evil, and theological attempts to justify God’s goodness such as the free will…

Peter Thistlethwaite provides a helpful outline of the theodicies of Augustine and Irenaeus.

Hick on soul-making In this extract from Philosophy of Religion (1963) pages 44–46 John Hick adopts a negative theodicy by arguing…

Hick’s Idea of Epistemic Distance Evaluated Epistemic distance develops from the view that it is perhaps possible that the universe is…

Dostoyevsky's argument in the Brothers Karamazov has been deeply influential. Click here for a detailed analysis and evaluation of the argument.

Process theology of A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne and the Problem of Evil Source: stanford.edu A central contention of process theism is…