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A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of ReligionThe Problem of Evil

A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion: The Problem of Evil CHAPTER V The arguments for and against the existence of God were discussed in the previous chapters. While such arguments are nowhere presented in the primal religions the way they are discussed within the philosophy of religion, we discovered that once we adjusted the lens to look for them in the vast realm of primal religious thought, evidence which had a bearing on such discussions was not wanting. The overall philosophical conclusion, that it was difficult to establish the case decisively either way on the question of the existence of God would, however, seem to hold even after the evidence provided by the primal religious tradition had been taken into account. One thus has to agree with the conclusion reached by John Hick at the end of the chapter on “Arguments Against the Existence of God”: The conclusion of this chapter is thus parallel to the conclusion of the preceding one. There it appeared that we cannot decisively prove the existence of God; here it appears that neither can we decisively disprove God’s existence. We have yet to consider what is, for many people, the most powerful reason for doubting the reality of a loving God, namely the immense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of ReligionThe Problem of Evil

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Springer Netherlands
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978-1-4020-5013-8
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81 –92
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CHAPTER V The arguments for and against the existence of God were discussed in the previous chapters. While such arguments are nowhere presented in the primal religions the way they are discussed within the philosophy of religion, we discovered that once we adjusted the lens to look for them in the vast realm of primal religious thought, evidence which had a bearing on such discussions was not wanting. The overall philosophical conclusion, that it was difficult to establish the case decisively either way on the question of the existence of God would, however, seem to hold even after the evidence provided by the primal religious tradition had been taken into account. One thus has to agree with the conclusion reached by John Hick at the end of the chapter on “Arguments Against the Existence of God”: The conclusion of this chapter is thus parallel to the conclusion of the preceding one. There it appeared that we cannot decisively prove the existence of God; here it appears that neither can we decisively disprove God’s existence. We have yet to consider what is, for many people, the most powerful reason for doubting the reality of a loving God, namely the immense

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: Chapter Versus; Moral Evil; Christian Theology; Natural Evil; Religious Idea

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