Doing, Allowing, and Occasionalism
In ‘God, evil, and occasionalism’ Matthew Shea and C.P. Ragland appeal to the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing to argue against Alvin Plantinga that occasionalism is morally worse than conservationism. In this article I critically examine their argument and conclude that it fails because it contains a...
| Subtitles: | Special issue: "The Existence and Nature of Deities" |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 505-521 |
| Review of: | God, evil, and occasionalism (2018) (Şen, Sümer)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shea, Matthew
/ Ragland, Clyde P. 1970-
/ Theodicy
/ Occasionalism
/ Suffering
/ Causality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
doing suffering
B Book review B Occasionalism B Doing and Allowing B indirect and direct causation B allowing suffering B conservationism B God |
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| Summary: | In ‘God, evil, and occasionalism’ Matthew Shea and C.P. Ragland appeal to the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing to argue against Alvin Plantinga that occasionalism is morally worse than conservationism. In this article I critically examine their argument and conclude that it fails because it contains an equivocation or is unwarranted. I also offer a case against their position by, first, arguing that on none of three prominent accounts of doing and allowing God merely allows suffering.Second, I develop the ‘Epistemological-Equivalence Argument’ in order to show that even if we grant such a distinction for God's acts, they would be morally on a par. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412521000056 |