A Martian’s perspective on the problem of evil

January 30, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 92 Comments

In the following extended excerpt from Wandering in Darkness Eleonore Stump provides a response to the overly dismissive critics of […]

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Wandering in Darkness: A Review

January 28, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 23 Comments

Eleonore Stump. Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. There is no greater […]

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

November 9, 2013 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 2 Comments

Yesterday I started reading Eleonore Stump’s magisterial 2010 book Wandering in the Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford: Clarendon […]

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Stephen Maitzen, theism, and moral duty

May 11, 2011 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 26 Comments

You may think I’m all giggles and gumdrops. But you’d be wrong. Catch me at the wrong time and you’d […]

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