Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Perry Hendricks, author of the recently published book Skeptical Theism, joins me to discuss one of the main theistic strategies for responding to the problem of evil, the problem of reconciling the evil and suffering in the world with the existence of an all-loving God. After outlining that response, Perry and I go through the four strongest objections to it: divine deception, Climenhaga's conundrum, equiprobability, and radical insensitivity.

Perry's book-length treatment of skeptical theism: amazon.com/Skeptical-Palgrave-Frontiers-Philosophy-Religion/dp/3031342704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=34QJGLLUZ4C7K&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1Ca4y1xo2e_l58I_YoWhPybHkztRj3PVSXjcBIptfdvFgkp84JTL1_RCzPY0fADlntruIUwNURr_7WZfukkqZq7nBVFRsldbgCRtBNuIdcMayYKsSYdKOSSI2kCI1aGXkX3tmgwZBks5h7JC_SAOspYrlrbOfGvBy6ynOIBTZ8g8_eAi_cnMtMo3DmLFA3QjCRmYwDl0G1pdhYq6tAXWhQuE-89f0NaW7RbPAGMHS4Y.Hnn1_Cfgp2iTCpU1lYRyD5TYW7Ue1irxhl_kZFs38nY&dib_tag=se&keywords=skeptical+theism&qid=1734342090&sprefix=skeptical+t%2Caps%2C507&sr=8-1

The article from Brian what's-his-name: cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/how-much-horrific-suffering-is-enough/79CC3B8958EF2B4C7E78AAA78ED0DD70