A modified free-will defense: A structural and theistic free-will defense as a response to James Sterba
dc.authorid | 0000-0002-8993-3522 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Balcı, Elif Nur Erkan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-22T13:46:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-22T13:46:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | en_US |
dc.department | BAİBÜ, İlahiyat Fakültesi, Felsefe ve Din Bilimleri Bölümü | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/rel13080700 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2077-1444 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85136724181 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080700 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12491/11916 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 13 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000845508600001 | en_US |
dc.identifier.wosquality | N/A | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | en_US |
dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | en_US |
dc.institutionauthor | Balcı, Elif Nur Erkan | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Religions | en_US |
dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | God | en_US |
dc.subject | Moral | en_US |
dc.subject | Morality | en_US |
dc.subject | Evil | en_US |
dc.subject | Theism | en_US |
dc.subject | Mu'tazila | en_US |
dc.title | A modified free-will defense: A structural and theistic free-will defense as a response to James Sterba | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |