A modified free-will defense: A structural and theistic free-will defense as a response to James Sterba
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2022
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In his book Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba argues that the Plantingian free-will defense, which reconciles the existence of a good and omnipotent God with the existence of evil, is a failed argument when it comes to the terrible evils in the world. This study discusses that Sterba's claim is invalid when Plantinga's free-will defense is modified with a structural perspective. In order to reconcile the structural and inevitable possibility of evil with God's moral imperatives, a structural free-will defense was complemented by an Islamic moral theology that Mu'tazila and its great scholar Qadi Abd al-Jabbar advanced. Such a modified free-will defense can show that the existence of all evil, including terrible ones, is still compatible with a good and omnipotent God.
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God, Moral, Morality, Evil, Theism, Mu'tazila
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Religions
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Q1
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13
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8
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Balci, E. N. (2022). A modified free-will defense: A structural and theistic free-will defense as a response to James sterba. Religions, 13(8), 700.
