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God and the Good1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Patterson Brown
Patterson Brown
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Binghamton
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Extract

First, a paradox, a problem in the problem of evil. I shall call it ‘the paradox of evil’.

On the one hand it is of course widely held that the evils in the world present an insuperable difficulty for Judeo-Christian theism. Russell, to take a conspicuous example, challenges any orthodox believer to visit the bedside of a child terminally ill with cancer and yet to retain his faith without hypocrisy (cf. ‘Why I am not a Christian’). No paradox here; just the familiar problem of evil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 269 - 276
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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1 This essay represents an attempt to give a unified presentation of the thesis advanced in my ‘Religious Morality’ (Mind, April 1963) and ‘Religious Morality: A Reply to Flew and Campbell’ (Mind, forthcoming).