Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other

Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops a...

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Main Author: Pihlström, Sami (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Helsinki Helsinki University Press 2020
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