Skeptical Theism, Pro-theism, and Anti-theism

Hendricks, Perry

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“…For a survey of connections drawn in the literature between the existential and axiological issues, see Kraay (2018a: 18-19). See also Hendricks (2020) and the subsequent discussion in Lougheed (2020a). 6 I will occasionally follow tradition by using masculine personal pronouns for God, but I do not mean to suggest thereby that God has either a sex or a gender.…”

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The Axiology of Theism

Kraay

2021

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Theism is the view that God exists; naturalism is the view that there are no supernatural beings, processes, mechanisms, or forces. This Element explores whether things are better, worse, or neither on theism relative to naturalism. It introduces readers to the central philosophical issues that bear on this question, and it distinguishes a wide range of ways it can be answered. It critically examines four views, three of which hold (in various ways) that things are better on theism than on naturalism, and one of which holds just the opposite.

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The Axiology of Theism

Kraay

2021

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“…There is, I think, good reason to think that Axiological Sceptical Theism is true (e.g. Hendricks (2020a) and (forthcoming), Hudson (2006) and (2014)). Moreover, there's good reason to think that Axiological Sceptical Theism, if true, undermines many important arguments against theism that make use of axiological claims.…”

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“…All of these arguments are vulnerable to Axiological Sceptical Theism: Bergmann (2001) and Draper (2013) argue that Rowe's evidential argument from evil (and others like it) succumb to Axiological Sceptical Theism; Hendricks (2018b) argues that the evil-god challenge succumbs to Axiological Sceptical Theism; Draper (2013) argues that if something like Axiological Sceptical Theism is true, then his argument from evil is in trouble; 3 Bergmann (2012) provides an error theory for why some might find the common-sense problem of evil compelling, and argues that Axiological Sceptical Theism is still relevant; 4 and Bergmann (2009) and Hendricks (forthcoming) claim that the argument from divine hiddenness is undercut by Axiological Sceptical Theism. My purpose here is not to defend any of these claims or arguments.…”

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“…With respect to this issue, I will punt: this is a complex issue that I discuss at length in Hendricks (forthcoming), arguing that sceptical theism is compatible with both theodicy and natural theology. But if I'm wrong and these objections are successful, then so much the worse for natural theology and theodicy: it's (I think) pretty clear that Deontological Sceptical Theism is true, and it's less clear that some theodicy is successful or that some piece of natural theology is.…”

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“…And, of course, he argues that this stronger axiological thesis is false . However, see Hendricks (forthcoming) for a response to his worries.…”

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Deontological sceptical theism proved

Hendricks

2023

Rel. Stud.

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In this article, I argue that sceptical theists have too narrow a focus: they consider only God's axiological reasons, ignoring any non-axiological reasons he may have. But this is a mistake: predicting how God will act requires knowing about his reasons in general, and this requires knowing about both God's axiological and non-axiological reasons. In light of this, I construct and defend a kind of sceptical theism – Deontological Sceptical Theism – that encompasses all of God's reasons, and briefly illustrate how it renders irrelevant certain charges of excessive sceptical and how it evaporates equiprobability objections. Furthermore, I put forth a simple argument in favour of Deontological Sceptical Theism, which shows that everyone (at least currently) ought to endorse it.

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Causal Connections, Logical Connections, and Skeptical Theism: There Is No Logical Problem of Evil

Hendricks

2022

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In this paper, I consider Sterba’s recent criticism of skeptical theism in context of his argument from evil. I show that Sterba’s criticism of skeptical theism shares an undesirable trait with all past criticisms of skeptical theism: it fails. This is largely due to his focus on causal connections and his neglect of logical connections. Because of this, his argument remains vulnerable to skeptical theism.

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Skeptical Theism, Pro-theism, and Anti-theism

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