The Problem of Evil - Common Sense Atheism

Index
If one of the lectures that make up this book is devoted entirely or
primarily to a certain topic, and if that fact is evident from the title
of the lecture, that topic does not appear in the index unless it is also
discussed in other lectures. In the latter case, the page numbers of the
lecture devoted to that topic do not appear in the index. There is no
entry ‘God’, for the simple reason that God’s presence in these lectures
is as pervasive as his presence in the world.
Adams, Marilyn M. 152n4, 153n9,
163n9, 168n1 (Lecture 6)
Adams, Robert M. 80, 152n4, 163n9,
164n5
‘agnostic’, meaning of 49, 159n3
Amis, Kingsley 57–8 (quoted)
Amis, Martin 154n14, 160n1
Anselmian conception of God
see greatest possible being, God as
Aquinas, St Thomas 25, 39, 71, 82,
139 (quoted), 157n5 (quoted)
Augustine, St 60, 70, 71,
163n9
Austin, J. L. 33
Bartlett, Robert 175n8
begging the question 46
Berlinski, David 16, 155n17
Bible, the 83, 84–5, 103, 127, 132,
165n9, 168n3, 175n7
Bilynskyj, Stephen S. 11(quoted),
153n12
Brand, Paul 170n12
burden of proof, the 46, 158n2
Burgess, Anthony 154n14 (quoted)
Buridan, Jean 3
chance 86, 89, 124, 167n11,
171n17
Church’s Thesis 39–40
counterfactuals of freedom
see middle knowledge
Creator, God as 29–30
defenses 7, 65–70
‘‘appreciation’’ 68–9
‘‘plenitude’’, ‘‘felix culpa’’,
‘‘radical Calvinist’’, 163n9
see also free-will defense, the
Descartes, René 25–6, 61, 72–3, 114,
157n6, 176n14
see also omnipotence, Cartesian
conception of
determinism 118
see also free will, compatibility with
determinism
divine foreknowledge
see free will, compatibility with divine
foreknowledge
see also omniscience
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 58 (quoted)
Ekstrom, Laura Waddell 164n1
eternity (divine attribute) 27
evil
‘‘actual’’ 83–4, 90
argument from 2, 4
forms of 8–10
evidential 8, 67, 68
local 8–9, 56, 90
logical 8, 67, 68
global 8–9
as illusion 58–61
meaning of the word 4, 12, 60
moral vs. natural 9
problem of 4–17
forms of 4–8
‘‘radical’’ 13–14, 154n14
Flew, Antony 163n8
Flint, Thomas 80, 164nn2,5