Providence and the Problem of Evil
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




4 Thought and Feeling
doi:10.1093/0198237987.003.0004

Richard Swinburne
Abstract: A second goal that a good God would have would be to create creatures with knowledge, thought, desires for what is good and which get satisfied, and have rightly formed emotions.

Keywords: creation, desire, emotions, God, knowledge,

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Full Book Contents
Introduction
I The Problem of Evil
1 The Need for Theodicy
2 Theodicy in Christian Tradition
II The Good Goals of Creation
3 Beauty
4 Thought and Feeling
5 Action
6 Worship
III The Necessary Evils
7 The Fact of Moral Evil; and Free Will
8 The Range of Moral Evil; and Responsibility
9 Natural Evil and the Scope for Response
10 Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge
11 The Evils of Sin and Agnosticism
IV Completing the Theodicy
12 God's Right
13 Weighing Good Against Bad
Index
 
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