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    Evil and Pain: A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
    Evil and Pain: A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
    Evil and Pain: A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
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    Evil and Pain: A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil

    By Joseph B. Onyango Okello

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    A specific form of understanding of evil, in the problem of evil debate, gets assumed among a variety of materialistic naturalists. Owing to their physicalist and, in some cases, behaviorist philosophies, this understanding assumes a hedonistic view of pain that reduces valuation to pleasure and pain. Herein, all forms of good and evil get reduced to pleasure and pain. This work reorients the debate toward a more biblical understanding of evil based on an essentialist reading of ethics. The book argues that the hedonistic understanding of value characterizing prominent naturalistic materialists, such as those alluded to by J. L. Mackie, semantically seems to entail either a synonymous or a near synonymous relationship between evil and pain. The book further argues that this understanding, given the essentialist reading of ethics, seems wrongheaded. By reorienting the contours of the debate, it suggests that the problem of pain might, in effect, be quite different from the problem of evil and that neither problem necessarily entails the other. Seen in this way, neither problem casts doubt on belief in God's existence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWipf and Stock
    Release dateJun 15, 2017
    ISBN9781532601330
    Evil and Pain: A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
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    Joseph B. Onyango Okello

    Joseph B. Onyango Okello is an associate professor of philosophy and ethics at Asbury Theological Seminary, Dunnam Campus, in Orlando, Florida. He holds both a master of arts and a doctor of philosophy degree, both in philosophy, from the University of Kentucky. He also holds a master of divinity and a master of arts in church music from Asbury Theological Seminary. Joseph has authored two books: Revisiting God and Heaven: God's Solution to Human Pain. Joseph, his wife, Sophie, and their son, Sean, live in Oviedo, Florida.

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