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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
182 Index free will (free choice) 26, 30, 63, 70–1, 73–4, 85, 87 compatibility with determinism 74, 75–8, 83 compatibility with divine foreknowledge 74, 80–3, 164n6, 165n7 see also free-will defense, middle knowledge free-will defense, the 26, 70–4, 79, 80, 83–94 Geach, Peter 24, 132–4, 163n9, 172n22, 23 gender see Sex and gender Gifford, Adam, Lord Gifford 1–3, 1 (quoted), 152n2 Gillingham, John 175n8 greatest possible being, God as 32–6, 157n10 Green, Christopher 163n9 Grünbaum, Adolf 41 Hanson, Norwood Russell 176n6 (quoted) Hasker, William 80 hidden God, the (Deus absconditus) 28, 36 Hobbes, Thomas 75 Howard-Snyder, Daniel 165n10, 173n2 Howard-Snyder, Frances 165n10 Hudson, Hud 163n9 Hughes, Christopher 158n10 Hume, David 33, 75, 174n5, 175n7 Huxley, Aldous 76 Huxley, Thomas Henry 160n3 immutability 28 impossibility see possibility and impossibility Jaki, Stanley L. 152n1 James, St 146 (quoted), 175n10 Kalmár, Lásló 40 Kane, Robert 164n1 Kant, Immanuel 1 laws of nature, the 114, 117–18, 169n2 Leibniz, G. W. F. 59, 60, 61 Leslie, John 148 Lewis, C. S. 195, 131–2, 163n9, 168n5, 172n21 Livingstone, David 172n20 love 36, 85–7, 90, 165n10 Lowell, Percival 59–60 Mackie,J.L. 13, 14, 163n8 McCloskey, H. J. 163n8 Mattson, Wallace 59 Melden, A. I. 163n9 middle knowledge 74, 79–80 see also Molinism, Thomism (vs. Molinism) Mill, J. S. 56–7 (quoted), 61, 62, 75 Molina, Luis de 79 see also Molinism Molinism 79–80 moral perfection 26–7, 62–3 Moser, Paul K. 173n2 natural theology 1–3 necessity (divine attribute) 30–1 Neiman, Susan 15–17, 155nn18, 19 Nozick, Robert 37 omnipotence 22–6, 62, 63, 68–70, 81, 116 Cartesian conception of 25–6, 72–3, 81–2 omnipresence 28–9, 138–9 omniscience 26, 63, 80–3, 164n6, 165nn7, 9 Paul, St 135, 151, 175n7 person, concept of a 20–2 Peter of Cornwall 143 (quoted), 175n8 Peterson, Michael L. 152n4, 163n9 philosophical arguments 2 Pike, Nelson 67, 163n8 Plantinga, Alvin 2, 39, 65, 67, 79–80, 152n3, 154n14 (quoted), 163nn8, 9, 164n2 Pope, Alexander 59 (quoted), 60, 61 possibility and impossibility 22–3, 31–2 ‘‘logical’’ 22–3 metaphysical 22, 23 see also Possible worlds possible worlds 31–2, 168n1 (Lecture 7)
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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
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