Theodical Individualism

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (1):139 - 159 (2011)
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In this journal Steve Maitzen has recently advanced an argument for atheism premised on theodical individualism, the thesis that God would not permit people to suffer evils that were underserved, involuntary, and gratuitous for them. In this paper I advance reasons to think this premise mistaken

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10.24204/ejpr.v3i1.385

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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism.Stephen Maitzen - 2009 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (2):107 - 126.
The Necessity of Gratuitous Evil.William Hasker - 1992 - Faith and Philosophy 9 (1):23-44.
The argument from evil.Michael Tooley - 1991 - Philosophical Perspectives 5:89-134.
Providence and the problem of evil.Eleonore Stump - 2011 - In Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Aquinas. New York: Oxford University Press.
The empirical argument from evil.William Rowe - 1986 - In William Wainwright & Robert Audi (eds.), Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment: New Essays in the Philosophy of Religion. Cornell University Press. pp. 227--247.

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