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  1. Alvin Plantinga’sGod and Other Minds (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967), ch. 6. Two recent defences of theism representing variations of the claim that evil is necessary to the greatest good are Nelson Pike, “Hume On Evil”,The Philosophical Review, Vol. LXXII, No. 2 (1963), reprinted in Pike (ed.),God and Evil (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964). pp. 85–102; and John Hick,Evil and the God of Love (London: Macmillan, 1966), esp. pp 279–398.

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    G. Stanley Kane

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Kane, G.S. Theism and evil. SOPH 9, 14–21 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02779107

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