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Thank God For Evil?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Freya Mora
Freya Mora
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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God's public image has perennially suffered from the apparent botch He has made of Creation, or our portion of it, at any rate. “What's so good about God”, people ask, “when He permits volcanoes in Lisbon, famines in Ghana, earthquakes in San Francisco?” Why is there always, in fact, whichever way we bite it, a worm in the apple?

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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 58 , Issue 225 , July 1983 , pp. 399 - 401
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1983

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1 I would like to thank Robert Pargetter for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper.