naa a22 4500 510752985 CHVBK 20180411083111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-012-0346-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-012-0346-9 Adams Marilyn Department of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA aut Ignorance, Instrumentality, Compensation, and the Problem of Evil [Elektronische Daten] [Marilyn Adams] Some theodicists, skeptical theists, and friendly atheists agree that God-justifying reasons for permitting evils would have to have an instrumental structure: that is, the evils would have to be necessary to secure a great enough good or necessary to prevent some equally bad or worse evil. D.Z. Phillips contends that instrumental reasons could never justify anyone for causing or permitting horrendous evils and concludes that the God of Restricted Standard Theism does not exist—indeed, is a conceptual mistake. After considering Phillips' and other objections in the neighborhood, I argue that the Expanded Theism of Christian theology does forward a God who ‘digs in' and eternally answers for horrors. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Appeal to ignorance nationallicence Horrors nationallicence Instrumental reasons nationallicence Compensation nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 7-26 0038-1527 52:1<7 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0346-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0346-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Adams Marilyn Department of Philosophy, UNC-Chapel Hill, 27599, Chapel Hill, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 7-26 0038-1527 52:1<7 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer