Alvin Plantinga - Does Evil Disprove God?

The problem of evil troubles believers and well it should. How to explain the moral evil of human acts and the natural evil of nature? How could God be both all-powerful and all-good? Philosophers of religion offer ‘defenses’ (no logical contradiction between evil and God’s existence) and ‘theodicies’ (complete systems explaining why God allows evil). But do they work?

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Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and the inaugural holder of the Jellema Chair in Philosophy at Calvin College.

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