The problem of the distribution of evil and a fluctuating maximal god.
With the goal of explaining the maldistribution of evil in the world, Asha Lancaster-Thomas has recently (2023) expounded upon the idea of a fluctuating maximal God (FMG) that she and others developed (Jeffrey et al. (2020)) from the idea of a maximal God originally proposed by Yujin Nagasawa (2017)...
| Publicado en: | International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 157 - 166 |
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Oct2024
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