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The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson. Published on December 18, 1965, in the Saturday Evening Post, [1] a few months after her death, it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery short story. [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Just an Ordinary Day (1996) and Dark Tales (2016).
Alvin Plantinga in 2004. Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. [1]
The Catholic Church believes the answer to the problem of evil lies in evil's conqueror, Jesus. [72] Because of this, the church teaches, every aspect of Christian doctrine - the goodness of the Universe, the reign of sin, God's covenants with Israel, the Paschal Mystery, the church itself, the sacraments of healing, etc. - is a part of the ...
For some thinkers, the existence of evil and hell could mean that God is not perfectly good and powerful or that there is no God at all. [62] Theodicy tries to address this dilemma by reconciling an all-knowing, all-powerful, and omnibenevolent God with the existence of evil and suffering, outlining the possibility that God and evil can coexist.
Van Inwagen gave the 2003 Gifford Lectures; they are published in his The Problem of Evil. [17] There Van Inwagen argues that the problem of evil is a philosophical argument and, like most philosophical arguments, fails. Van Inwagen has shown an interest in the afterlife debate, particularly in relation to resurrection of the body. In his ...
If you’re someone seeking answers from your faith…-based supernatural show, prepare to have your prayers answered. Evil co-creators/executive producers Robert and Michelle King recently told ...
(The Center Square) – The Georgia Court of Appeals removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the election interference case against Donald J. Trump and others. The ...
In 1955 he published "Evil and Omnipotence", which summarized his view that belief in the existence of evil and an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god is "positively irrational". [ 18 ] Mackie's views on this logical problem of evil prompted Alvin Plantinga to respond with the " free-will defense ", which Mackie later responded in his ...