What to Expect from the God of History

Faith and Philosophy 39 (4):549-572 (2022)
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Abstract

I argue that our expectations for particular evil events, conditional on theism, ought to be informed by our empirical knowledge of history—that is, the history of what God, if God exists, has already allowed to happen. This point is under-appreciated in the literature. And yet if I’m right, this entails that most particular evil events are not evidence against theism. This is a limited but interesting consequence in debates over the evidential impact of evil.

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Laura Frances Callahan
University of Notre Dame

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