The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which ...

Basil Mitchell's contribution to the debate offered yet another entry in the contest of dueling parables: In time of war in an o ...

I. M. Crombie (1955), in commenting on the falsification debate, elaborates views that are generally consistent with Mitchell's. ...

appears that, at best, we will arrive at some form of pluralism or relativism—and this, whatever its intrinsic merits, is far re ...

Sometime in the late 1960s the claim that speech about God is devoid of cognitive import died a quiet death. There was no quick, ...

Leftow (1989). The doctrine of divine simplicity has been even more embattled, and many (though not all) analytic theists would ...

argument, but he considers that “this old argument for the existence of God is far better than most philosophers of the modern p ...

high standards for their success. An interesting stance on these matters has been defended by Richard Swinburne. Swinburne accep ...

The problem of evil is not the only objection to theism in contemporary philosophy, but it has been by far the most prominent. D ...

theodicy, which would vindicate God by showing that God does indeed have good reasons for permitting evil to occur. It is especi ...

and—not least important—our much greater awareness of disasters and human suffering occurring all over the globe, the optimism o ...

theodicy. Such a theodicy will not claim that “every evil leads to a greater good,” but rather that the nature and structure of ...

Perhaps the most crucial divide for theories of providence is the presence or absence of libertarian free will on the part of hu ...

actions that are logically impossible. Somewhat surprisingly, the assertion that God lacks comprehensive knowledge of the future ...

Many philosophers believe that absolute necessity is “logical” or “conceptual” in such a way as to be confined to a mental or ab ...

This is an analytic or conceptual truth, because it is part of our concept of a chemical kind that the chemical formula of a sub ...

accepted and incorporated by others. But there are also differences of principle that cannot easily be reconciled. There is no r ...

occasion reject Thomistic views in a way that more traditional Thomists were unwilling to do. By doing this they are in effect m ...

Those who are uninterested in clarity and truth as applied to religious assertions will naturally find this style of philosophiz ...

Crombie, I. M. 1955. “Theology and Falsification: Arising from the University Discussion.” In Flew and MacIntyre 1955, 109–30. F ...