RT Article
T1 An apophatic response to the evidential argument from evil
JF International journal of philosophy and theology
VO 78
IS 4/5
SP 485
OP 497
A1 Brown, Joshua Matthan
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1640200053
AB I argue that Christian apophaticism provides the most powerful and economical response to the evidential argument from evil for the non-existence of God. I also reply to the objection that Christian apophaticism is incoherent, because it appears to entail the truth of the following contradiction: it is both possible and impossible to know God’s essential properties. To meet this objection, I outline a coherent account of the divine attributes inspired by the theology of the Greek Father’s and St. Gregory Palamas.
K1 problem of evil
K1 apophatic theology
K1 ESSENCE-ENERGIES DISTINCTION
K1 real essentialism