Source: Bernhard Christoph Francke/WIkimedia Commons/Public Domain. Many people who have heard of Gottfried Leibniz first heard of him through Voltaire’s satirical Candide (1759), in which Leibniz is ...

For believers, suffering is a painful contradiction. Instead of theories (theodicies) that harm, anti-theodicy urges us to ...

Source: Violetbonmua / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0 This post is Part 1 of a series. In my view, the problem of human evil has, with few exceptions (see, for example, Jung, Frankl, Lifton, May, ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024. Over the last six decades, a certain phrase has ...

Critics of theism and Christianity claim not only that God is dead but that he never truly existed in the first place. For if ...