The problem of evil is a question that deeply troubles every generation and, to some, refutes the idea of a benevolent God of love as a logical impossibility. It’s been a subject of philosophy and ...

Why must the innocent endure unnecessary misery if an almighty God truly loves them? | Image courtesy of Image by Tumisu from Pixabay. Trust in an amipotent God frees us from frightful and damaging ...

What does it mean to have faith, to believe in a God who is present when it seems like power and greed inevitably win? In the face of these kinds of questions it often feels like we need to address ...

New York, NY, January 20, 2025 --(PR.com)-- “The Problem of Evil”: a deeply engaging work that addresses a fundamental and challenging question in theology and philosophy. “The Problem of Evil” is the ...

In 2010, the philosopher Stephen Law published a paper called The Evil God Challenge that tries to prove atheism with a simple thought experiment. And in today’s episode, I’ll show how to answer this ...

Source: Violetbonmua / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 This post is Part 1 of a series. In my view, the problem of human evil has, with few exceptions (see, for example, Jung, Frankl, Lifton, May, ...

Throughout human history, the most pressing unanswered question — aside from ‘What happens after death?’ — is probably the one in the headline above: Why is ‘evil’ much more contagious than ‘good’?

Source: Bernhard Christoph Francke/WIkimedia Commons/Public Domain. Many people who have heard of Gottfried Leibniz first heard of him through Voltaire’s satirical Candide (1759), in which Leibniz is ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...