Swinburne, Richard Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford
Print publication date: 1998 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823798-3







doi:10.1093/0198237987.003.0012

Richard Swinburne
Abstract: God has the right to allow humans to suffer if this suffering is logically necessary to achieve a great good so long as he compensates them for that suffering. The great good of being of use by suffering in this way provides at least partial compensation. But if there are humans whose life on earth is on balance bad, God must compensate them in a life after death.

Keywords: afterlife, compensation, God, rights, suffering,

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I The Problem of Evil
II The Good Goals of Creation
III The Necessary Evils
IV Completing the Theodicy