God and Evil: An Inquiry

God and Evil: An Inquiry

If God is indeed omniscient and omnipotent, would it not then be within God’s power to properly eliminate every evil state of affairs?

Josiah Jordan | Brown & RISD Cornerstone | Spring 2019

Hope

If good and evil intrinsically oppose each other, how can they coexist in the presence of an omnipotent and omniscient God?

Noelle Michael | Vanderbilt Synesis | Fall 2018

Should I Doubt My Religion Because There are Others?

Relativism appears to be the most moral response to the plurality of religions. Empathy seems to require affirming as many perspectives as we can.

Haidun Liu | The Columbia Crown & Cross | Fall 2018

Alvin Plantinga’s Problems with Materialism

Plantinga decided to concentrate his intellectual efforts on engaging philosophical materialism - a philosophical viewpoint that often discredits religious reasoning before a discussion even begins.

Max Graham | The Yale Logos | Fall 2018

A Theology of Quantum Mechanics

With a scientific mindset, it can be difficult to rationalize spiritual interfaces with physical reality. By the end of this article, we should have at least a framework of reason in which to approach these questions.

Ronald Davis III | MIT et Spiritus | Fall 2018

Positivism and the Burden of Proof

To distinguish scientific from non-scientific questions, positivists used the verifiability principle, on which a question could be considered scientific if and only if it could be verified empirically.

Will Vickery | The UT Austin Texas Trinitas | Fall 2018

Discovering God: Plantinga and the Sensus Divinitatis

Reid argues that there are certain ideas, namely those which our nature leads us to believe, that we must accept as true. Those beliefs can be considered to be basic, the foundations of our further knowledge.

Jeffrey Poomkudy | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018

Reconciling Faith and Reason

Biblically, faith is defined as “confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” It is noteworthy that in both definitions of faith mentioned, there involves a certain element that extends beyond human perception.

Sarah Liu | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

The Problem of Evil: An Ichthus Roundtable

In addition to our own thoughts, we provide links to a wide variety of pieces on the problem of evil by professional philosophers.

The Harvard Ichthus Staff | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2015

God in Mathematics and Philosophy: An Interview with John Lennox

People often ask me, “What is the probability that God exists?” I say to them, “What is the probability that you exist?”

Luke Dickens and Stephanie Liu | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

Law, Craig, and Lewis on the Problem of Evil

The philosophers William Craig (a theist) and Stephen Law (an atheist) met in Westminster Central Hall to debate the existence of God. Within the discussion was an exchange on the Problem of Natural Evil.

Josh Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

When Things Stop Making Sense

At the very least, I hope to convince you that the philosophy of materialism is not at all obvious, and should not be accepted unquestioningly. After all, why should electrons go whizzing around subject to mysterious mathematical laws?

Stephen Mackereth | The Harvard Ichthus | Fall 2012, Volume 8, Number 3

November 2019