Download or read book Defeating the Evil-God Challenge written by Jack Symes and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is belief in a maximally good god significantly more reasonable than belief in a maximally evil god? Defending the view that arguments from philosophical theology constitute a serious threat to the symmetry thesis, Jack Symes responds to and sets out a new solution to the evil-god challenge.Symes argues it is more reasonable to attribute goodness to the concept of god than it is to attribute evil, and therefore, we have reason to favour belief in a good god over an evil god. To this end, he examines the concepts of good god and evil god through three lenses of philosophical theology: perfect-being theology, creation theology, and revelation theology. Drawing from a breadth of material including metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and epistemology, Symes develops a range of asymmetries that serve to undermine the symmetry thesis in favour of a good god. A theologically and philosophically nuanced engagement with the evil-god problem, it is the first book-length treatment to showcase the ways it can not only be solved, but that the solution is simple, modest, and compelling.