A defence of skeptical theism

• Salvatore, Nicola Claudio ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos
• Localización: Manuscrito: revista internacional de filosofía, ISSN 0100-6045, Vol. 44, Nº. 4, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: out./dez.), págs. 293-312
• Idioma: inglés
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  • According to The Evidentialist problem of Evil, the existence of disproportionate, prima facie gratuitous evil and suffering in the world is enough evidence against the existence of the Omnipotent, Perfectly Loving, Omniscient God of Classical Theism. A contemporary way of dealing with this argument is Skeptical Theism , for which the very fact that there is an huge amount of evil that looks gratuitous to us does not mean that we can reasonably believe whether this evil is indeed gratuitous or not . In this paper, I present and discuss a number of influential criticisms against this view according to which a proponent of Skeptical Theism will be forced to accept a number of unpalatable skeptical conclusions. I argue that this is not the case.