Table of Contents

Introduction
1: A Moderate Anselmian Plea
2: Metaphysical Atheological Arguments and the Free Will Defense
3: Three Important Objections
4: Unrestricted Actualization, Freedom and Morally Perfect Worlds
5: The Logical Problem of Evil Redux
6: Four Important Objections
7: Four More Objections
8: Redeeming Worlds
9: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael J. Almeida is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has taught since 1990. He completed his PhD at the Ohio State University, and his research specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethical theory.

Reviews

Almeida has produced a compelling and challenging book that is conversant with, and demands the attention of, contemporary debates in philosophy of religion
*Jamie Boulding, The Expository Times*

Almeida offers a rigorous challenge to some widely accepted assumptions that underlie various philosophical arguments against the existence of God . . . Almeida defends a view implying that it is not an a priori necessary truth that God has the essential properties of perfect goodness, omnipotence, omniscience, or necessary existence . . . The book's nine chapters develop this view with exceptional rigor and detail, along with due attention to the relevant philosophical works opposing theism . . . Highly recommended.
*Paul K. Moser, Choice*

Michael Almeida offers us a detailed defense of moderate Anselmian theism from all versions of the argument from evil . . . This is a brilliant book
*Peter Forrest, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*