![]() In this discussion, ‘atheism’ is synonymous with an anti-theistic denial that a creator God exists. ![]() While in general, I take the term ‘atheism’ to mean, tout court, a denial of the existence of God, however conceived, in the discussion of the problem of evil that is to follow, I will take ‘atheism’ to have a narrower meaning. That is, if God’s existence is affirmed in a-theistic or, or non-theistic theologies, these theologies cannot count as forms of atheism. Of course, a non-theistic concept of God is, by definition, a-theistic but it may not be atheistic, at least if its theology affirms the existence of a divine reality of some sort. For example, the denial of a particular theistic concept of God (say in pantheism) might count as atheism relative to other theistic concepts (say panentheism) and the denial of any form of theism (say in Buddhism) might seem to entail that every non-theistic concept of God is a form of atheism. Because there are different concepts of God, there can be a variety of “atheisms”.
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