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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Melville Y Stewart |
| ISBN: | 0312080956 9780312080952 |
| OCLC Number: | 25412328 |
| Description: | xi, 202 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence -- The greater-good defence -- Derivations of greater-good defence -- The free will defence specification -- Growth-to-moral-maturity / soul-growth defence specifiaction -- O Feliz Culpa, redemption, and the greater-good defence. |
| Responsibility: | Melville Y. Stewart. |
Abstract:
Several defences, viewed in this study as specifications or 'offspring' of the 'parent' greater-good defence, have been formulated in response to the charge that Christianity is untenable because God's existence is incompatible with evil's existence. In this first book-length study of the parent defence, Stewart begins with careful definitions of the omni-attributes central to the dispute: omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence. The parent defence is traced to tenets of theism and variant accounts of the defence considered. Plantinga's modal free-will defence and Hick's and Yandell's soul-growth specifications are carefully analyzed and several difficulties resolved. An original formulation of a redemption specification and an original account of the origin of moral evil are offered. Stewart argues that the defences are rightly viewed as a family of defences falling under the greater-good heading, and that they comprise a complementary apologetic complex that refutes the claim of inconsistency.
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