The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil. By Brian Davies
The present reviewer wrote not long ago of the problem of evil that ‘the moves in that debate are well-known, not to say well-worn’; Professor Davies's book shows how rash that was. His own moves are generally Thomist, and this enables him to treat most of those made in current debates, by thei...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 787-788 |
| Review of: | The reality of God and the problem of evil (London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2006) (Sturch, Richard)
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| Summary: | The present reviewer wrote not long ago of the problem of evil that ‘the moves in that debate are well-known, not to say well-worn’; Professor Davies's book shows how rash that was. His own moves are generally Thomist, and this enables him to treat most of those made in current debates, by theists and atheists alike, as misguided and wide of the mark., He begins by establishing the existence of a Creator (basically by way of a form of cosmological argument, though he does not use that term). But whereas the conventional debate then goes on to discuss whether the Creator's atrributes of goodness, omnipotence, and so on are compatible with the existence of evil, Davies starts with the attributes we must deny of him—beginning with the attribute of personality. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm127 |