The African Mood Perspective on God and the Problem of Evil (Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion) - Hardcover

Ada Agada

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009452665 ISBN 13: 9781009452663

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Element argues that the limited creator-God of consolation has a duty to ameliorate the suffering in the world.

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This Element concisely and critically explores the African limited God perspective that denies that the categories of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence are applicable to the God of African Traditional Religion (ATR). The Element teases out the intricate conceptual nuances in the limitation thesis and interrogates the divergent stances of proponents of the limited God view, with special focus on the mood perspective of the philosophy of consolationism. Proponents of the limitation thesis may be limited God theists who accept that the limited God is a creator-deity or, at least, a world-designer, or limited God non-theists who deny the limited God personality and agency. The Element expands the frontiers of research in African philosophy of religion by showing that the limitation thesis raises the question of a limited God's moral responsibility for some of the evil in the world in his capacity as a world-creator or world-designer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009452665
• ISBN 13: 9781009452663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 75