Is God responsible for evil?
Date
2020
Authors
Zimmerman, Dean W., speaker
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, speaker
Couenhoven, Jesse, speaker
Bishop, John, speaker
Ward, Keith, speaker
Kuhn, Robert Lawrence, speaker
The Kuhn Foundation; Getzels Gordon Productions, producer
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How on earth could God be reconciled with massive, monstrous evil? If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is the creator, wouldn't God be responsible for evil? Re-visiting the issue, featuring interviews by Robert Kuhn on Closer to Truth with: • Dean W. Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University • Holmes Rolston III, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University. The Rolston interview is also separately online: https://hdl.handle.net/10217/211041 • Jesse Couenhoven, Professor of Moral Theology in the Department of Humanities and Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University • John Bishop, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand • Keith Ward. Gresham Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, from 1991 through 2003 Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford.
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Episode 1402 of Closer to the Truth: Cosmos. Consiousness. God, filmed in 2012, aired in 2020. Filmed variously.
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Subject
evil
God
cosmos
consciousness
theodicy
free will
suffering
redemption
afterlife
means and ends