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Is God a Free-Range Parent?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2024

Cheryl K. Chen
Cheryl K. Chen*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: ckchen@fas.harvard.edu
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Abstract

If a benevolent and all-powerful God exists, how can there be so much suffering? Could God have created a better world? Or is evil the price we pay for freedom of the will?

Keywords

Godproblem of evilfree willMolinismopen theism
Type
Research Article
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Think , Volume 23 , Issue 67 , Summer 2024 , pp. 5 - 10
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy

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