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Title: Providence and the Problem of Evil by Richard Swinburne ISBN: 0-19-823798-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Summary: swinburne on evil
Comment: In Providence and the Problem of Evil, Swinburne finally gives us a full-length treatment of evil. Swinburne presents us with an explanation of evil that focuses not just on our free will, but on the importance of mutual responsibility as a prerequisite of free will. Admirably, Swinburne attempts to integrate an account of natural evil into his account of moral evil. Natural evil is ultimately the result of a law-governed world, again a prerequisite for significant free will. Despite the usual intellectual rigor and vivacity of his work, there are some problems which Swinburne has left unresolved. First, his account of evil often falls flat in the face of concrete evil, requiring that we see such things as childhood cancer as a good thing because of the opportunities it affords us to be caring. It rings especially hollow in the face of tremendous evil like the Holocaust. Second, Swinburne does not fully treat a problem raised by J.L. Mackie some 30 years ago--that every opportunity for higher-order good (such as caring, sympathy and the like) are also opportunities for higher-order evil. Lastly, Swinburne never takes seriously the fact that his treatment of natural evil is really no more than the atheist has to say about the issue with the further complication of God and free will being added to the picture. As Swinburne himself in his other works focuses on simplicity as the be-all and end-all of explanation, this lacuna is greatly regrettable. However, despite its problems, Swinburne's book is an excellent attempt to grapple with a serious issue, and thus is time well spent.
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Title: The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings (Library of Religious Philosophy, Vol 8) by Michael L. Peterson ISBN: 0268015155 Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Christian God by Richard Swinburne ISBN: 0198235127 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) by Marilyn McCord Adams ISBN: 0801486866 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy by Richard Swinburne ISBN: 0198239688 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Existence of God by Richard. Swinburne ISBN: 0198239637 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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