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Subscriber: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University; date: 29 November 2011 Acknowledgements This volume grew out of a conference sponsored by the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame in September 2009. We are grateful to the staff and graduate students involved with the Center for their assistance with that—especially Joyce Zurawski, the Center's Program Coordinator, and Charity Anderson, the graduate assistant who took the lead in managing all of the many details that needed attention while the conference was in session. We are also grateful to the Henkels Lecture Series and the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame for their generous financial support, and (again) to Charity Anderson for preparing the manuscript for publication. Page 1 of 1 Acknowledgements PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2011. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use (for details see http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/page/privacy-policy). Subscriber: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University; date: 29 November 2011 Notes on Contributors • Gary A. Anderson is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame. • Louise Antony is Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. • Michael Bergmann is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University. • James L. Crenshaw is Robert L. Flowers Professor of Old Testament, Emeritus, Duke University. • Edwin Curley is James B. and Grace J. Nelson Professor, University of Michigan. • Paul Draper is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University. • Evan Fales is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa. • John Hare is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University. • Wes Morriston is Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder. • Mark C. Murphy is Fr. Joseph T. Durkin, SJ Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University. • Michael J. Murray is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy, Franklin and Marshall College. • Alvin Plantinga is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. • Michael C. Rea is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. • Christopher Seitz is Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto. • Eleonore Stump is Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy, St Louis University. • Richard Swinburne is Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Emeritus, Oxford University. • (p. xi ) Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. • Howard Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside. • Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Emeritus, Yale University. (p. xii ) Page 1 of 2 Notes on Contributors PRINTED FROM OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.oxfordscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2011. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in OSO for personal use (for details see http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/page/privacy-policy). Subscriber: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University; date: 29 November 2011

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Adherents of the Abrahamic religions have traditionally held that God is morally perfect and unconditionally deserving of devotion, obedience, love, and worship. The Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures tell us that God is compassionate, merciful, and just. As is well-known, however, these same