PhD: Twitter quote 13

PhD: Twitter quote 13

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2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter

Twitter version

Welty rejects Plantinga’s idea that God cannot create a world containing moral good and no moral evil. Welty raises the objection that God brought Christ into the world as a sinless human being. 

PhD version

Welty rejects Plantinga’s idea that God cannot create a world containing moral good and no moral evil,1 and raises the objection that God brought Christ into the world as a sinless human being. 2

1 Plantinga (1977)(2002: 30). Welty (1999: 1). 

2 Welty (1999: 1).  

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PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (1977)(2002) God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (1982) The Nature of Necessity, Oxford, Clarendon Press. 

PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (2000) Warranted Christian Belief, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

WELTY, GREG (1999) ‘The Problem of Evil’, in Greg Welty PhD, Fort Worth, Texas. Philosophy Department, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~jad/welty/probevil.htm