@article{Shields_2021, title={Representing the Parent Analogy}, volume={13}, url={https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3363}, DOI={10.24204/ejpr.2021.3363}, abstractNote={<p>I argue that Stephen Wykstra’s much discussed Parent Analogy is helpful in responding to the evidential problem of evil when it is expanded upon from a positive skeptical theist framework. This framework, defended by John Depoe, says that although we often remain in the dark about the first-order reasons that God allows particular instances of suffering, we can have positive second-order reasons that God would create a world with seemingly gratuitous evils. I respond to recent challenges to the Parent Analogy by arguing that God, like a good parent, wants a rightly ordered relationship of mutual love with created beings.</p>}, number={4}, journal={European Journal for Philosophy of Religion}, author={Shields, Jannai}, year={2021}, month={Dec.} }