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Eleonore Stump

A Martian’s perspective on the problem of evil

January 30, 2014 by Randal

In the following extended excerpt from Wandering in Darkness Eleonore Stump provides a response to the overly dismissive critics of theodicy (and defense) (a theodicy seeks to explain why God allows suffering; a defense offers a possible explanation for why God allows suffering). The passage nicely marginalizes the incredulity of the critic even as it […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, defense, Eleonore Stump, problem of evil, suffering, theodicy

Wandering in Darkness: A Review

January 28, 2014 by Randal

Eleonore Stump. Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. There is no greater intellectual and practical objection to Christian faith than the problem of evil. Analytic philosophy offers powerful tools of logical analysis to explain the precise nature of the problem and offer positive solutions. At the same […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, defense, Eleonore Stump, epistemology, philosophy, problem of evil, review, theodicy, Wandering in Darkness

Smith, Jones, and wandering into “Wandering in the Darkness”

November 9, 2013 by Randal

Yesterday I started reading Eleonore Stump’s magisterial 2010 book Wandering in the Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford: Clarendon Press). It’s a BIG book, both in terms of pages (668 of ’em!) and size (6.8”×9.6”). But even more importantly, it’s big in vision as Stump brings her formidable intellect as one of the leading philosophers […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analytic philosophy, Eleonore Stump, evil, narrative, Wandering in the Darkness

Stephen Maitzen, theism, and moral duty

May 11, 2011 by Randal

You may think I’m all giggles and gumdrops. But you’d be wrong. Catch me at the wrong time and you’d think you had run into Grumpy Dwarf times ten! And I am I’m in a very black mood at the moment. You see, I typed an entire post responding to Stephen Maitzen’s argument, a task […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, deontological ethics, Eleonore Stump, morality, Stephen Maitzen, theism

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