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| | Theodicy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While theodicy cannot prove the existence of God, it can make belief in God reasonable, by showing that the existence of God is not necessarily incompatible with the existence of evil. | | | Evolutionary theodicy, suggests that the plan that God has involves the elimination of all evil at the end of time, but that the means by which creation occurs always leads to the presence of evil in the interim. | | | This is in juxtaposition to theology, which attempts to explain the nature of God using supernatural revelation and faith. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodicy
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| | A Consideration Concerning Theodicy |
| | Theodicy is possible only for a theology that is spiritualistic, and not naturalistic, for a theology, which will think about God not in an analogy with the objects of the natural world nor with the traits of the kingdom of Caesar, but in revelations of the spiritual world, of spiritual experience, of the spiritual pathway. | | | On the contrary, for spiritual theology and for its theodicy, Christianity reveals itself as a religion of tragedy. | | | Only in the union of the Divine nature and the human nature is there revealed the meaning of the world and the light that doth illumine life. |
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http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1927_321.html
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| | From this and many other examples of the argument for theodicy, we infer that traditional belief in divine theodicy entails three elements: (1) a judge, (2) survival of death, and (3) post-mortem retribution by God. | | | Therefore, both proponents of theodicy and its adversaries regularly cast their argument in terms of three interrelated items which they either affirm or deny: (1) God as judge, (2) human survival after death, and (3) post-mortem retribution. | | | By "theodicy" I mean the argument that God's providential relationship to the world entails a just judgment of mortals, especially a judgment which takes place after death where rewards and punishments are allotted. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~jneyrey1/epicureans.html
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| | On the one hand, it is by the faith of religion that God is affirmed to be perfectly good, despite the evil to be found in the world of His creation and governance. | | | And he is led to recognize that the observed facts of nature and history do not afford an unexceptionable argument for the goodness of God, and that after all the most solid ground of belief in the divine goodness lies in the needs and claims of the religious consciousness. | | | For as a rule the use of the term is more in keeping with its literal meaning, and theodicy is understood as the (or a) vindication of the divine providence or government in view of the existence of evil. |
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http://www.dabar.org/Religion/Hastings/JH-ERE-Theodicy.htm
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| | Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness 3 - Session 7a |
| | His theodicy, whilst affirming God& omnipotence, calls into question God& justice, suggesting that whether or not God is ultimately vindicated in light of the atrocity of the holocaust, will depend on what God does with the future. | | | And such a theodicy could be provided, he thought, by various kinds of communal artistic activity, most notably Greek tragedy and its modern equivalent Wagnerian music-drama, which faciliate a mystical vision of the world as a primal, undifferentiated unity. | | | In broad outline, it will be argued that, due to revisions in his metaphysics and epistemology, Nietzsche's position on theodicy divides into an early and a later formulation, but that these positions are unified by their shared basis in his aestheticism. |
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http://www.wickedness.net/e3s7a.htm
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| | Rabbi Marc Gafni - Part 2: A more sensitive way of denying God |
| | While Job's wife responded by cursing God, Rabbis respond with a theodicy that is no less a violation of the sacred. | | | It is that ability to re-access God that theodicy helps us towards, which allows us to hold the uncertainty of the question. | | | There is a question, theodicy provides the answer, and the question no longer exists. |
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http://www.rabbimarcgafni.com/rabbimarcgafni2.html
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| | Theodicy as a "Lived Question:" Moving Beyond a Theoretical Approach to Theodicy, by Todd Bilings. |
| | The theodicy question should be a "lived question" - and the asking of the question in a nontheoretical way is a way of living in the world. | | | Like Moltmann, it does not present an answer to the question, but reflects critically on what it means in the Christian life to live with a raw, unanswered question. | | | From one scholar to another, Tilley has admonished his colleagues to discontinue their approach of inquiring about theodicy. |
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http://www.tcpc.org/resources/constellation/fall_02/billings.htm
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| | theodicy -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in his Theodicy (1710), defended the justice of God in spite of the existence of evil. | | | It was originally a Western term, referring to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs about the end of history, the resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the messianic era, and the problem of theodicy (the vindication of God's justice). | | | For him, God is almighty only in that he is able to do that which is logically… |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071992?tocId=9071992&query=theodicy&ct=
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| | Quodlibet Online Journal: Theodicy for a World in Process- by Ross L Stein |
| | The former mount apologetic arguments against the position that belief in the existence of God is logically inconsistent with the existence of evil, while the latter provide positive arguments which seek to justify a God who creates a world with evil. | | | The traditional theodicies of Christian orthodoxy, developed by Augustine, Aquinas, the Reformers, and Leibniz, all posit a static and unchanging world that God brought into being at some specific moment. | | | Such theodicies are strangely out of sync, at once affirming but yet ignoring a universe in process. |
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http://www.quodlibet.net/stein-theodicy.shtml
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| | The Grace Pages: I have no theodicy |
| | I suspect most believers in God are exactly the same, but are loathe to admit that for them the existence of God is as axiomatic to their thought-world as the idea that other people exist or that the world turns. | | | They devise theodicies and explanations, but I expect their reasons for believing are the same as mine at the end of the day: They just, um, do. | | | Problem is, I'm not sure I have a theodicy. |
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http://gracepages.blogspot.com/2004/12/i-have-no-theodicy.html
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| | eclecticism: Theodicy survey |
| | While I'd not heard the term theodicy before this (or at least didn't remember hearing it), the question has come up on occasion over the years, often during conversations when people have expressed surprise that a black-wearing, industrial-music-listening, goth-culture-loving, (ex-)drug-using, GLBT-supporting, open-minded person such as myself would still count their base beliefs as Christian. | | | Kirsten, I’m not precisely a Scripture quoter either, but I found the passage you were referring to: Matthew 5:45. | | | To me, I’ve most of the time solved theodicy for myself by saying that humanity’s free will negates God& omnipotence and omniscience, but it’s not a pleasant thought. |
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http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/11/theodicy_survey.html
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| | Theodicy: Dissonance in Theory and Praxis |
| | There have even been those who have argued that a theodicy that inculpates God cannot, by definition, be called a theodicy; that is, that a theodicy that does not justify God, is not a theodicy. | | | In the matter of theodicy, this means that a good argument does not deny reality as it can be -- evil; nor does it deny the basic structure of the religious world -- a good God; and, it does not leave one unduly torn by contradiction and incoherence. | | | In the image of Scripture, "God hides God's Face," to which the proper response is faith and loyalty. |
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http://www.js.emory.edu/BLUMENTHAL/Theodicy.html
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| | SOPHIA : Society for Philosophy - THE MENTAL |
| | In his Theodicy (1710), he defended the justice of God in spite of the existence of evil. | | | Such a personification will not be rejected, for in the discourses developed by the religious theodicies of the world religions, the figure of "the Devil" plays a major role. | | | The world religions and their scriptures bluntly state the existence of a power of darkness (as well as some kind of life after death and the possibility of salvation in this life or the next) but they do not always clearly explain the ramifications of evil. |
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http://www.sofiatopia.org/equiaeon/theodicy.htm
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| | Theodicy. |
| | Hick asserts that God had to create people with the ability to do evil, for otherwise, people would not be able to participate in “soul-making” which is what serves to bring men closer to God. | | | Perhaps the most common theodicy is the so-called free-will argument - very similar to Augustine's argument. | | | Hick refers to this Augustinian Theodicy as the “majority report.” However, Hick believes that the Irenean tradition is more plausible. |
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http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/ETEXTS/PHIL_of_RELIGION_TEXT/CHAPTER_6_PROBLEM_of_EVIL/Theodicy.htm
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| | Theodicy Overview |
| | A Theodicy of Protest: This position is one that complains to God, objecting that God could have and on the surface should have intervened in any number of horrific circumstances. | | | The divine hiddenness of God (deus absconditus) is sometimes considered a subset of theodicy because the way God responds or his refusal to respond is often felt to be part of the problem for atheists and agnostics (as well as theists at times). | | | Each of these problems could be said to have dual audiences—the various atheists who question the existence of God on their basis, and those believers who because of their belief wish to answer these questions as well. |
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http://www.dbu.edu/mitchell/theodicy.htm
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| | Books In Review: Doing Theodicy |
| | The Irenaean theodicy, named after the Church Father and recently popularized by John Hick, sees our world as an arena of "soul making," that is, a place where free but immature creatures can grow up into moral and spiritual maturity. | | | Nonetheless, Stackhouse says, if God calls us to trust Him, and such trust is not to be a matter of blind or arbitrary faith, it is necessary that God provide us "with some other intellectually satisfying grounds." This leads Stackhouse to a broad- ranging discussion of "sufficient warrant" for Christian belief. | | | For if God is both omnipotent and perfectly benevolent, then it seems He both could and would eliminate evil. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9812/walls.html
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| | Books In Review |
| | Evil and the Evidence for God: The Challenge of John Hick's Theodicy. | | | It follows that if God's existence can be established on other grounds, the theodicy problem is significantly reduced. | | | And they strongly suggest that God, in the process of creation, built in the inevitability of suffering as a part of His method. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9412/markham.html
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| | Amazon.com: Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy: Books: Stephen T. Davis,John B., Jr. Cobb,David R. ... |
| | Theodicies sometimes address the problem of the co-existence of God and evil in what might be considered a sufficient manner, yet in the final analysis the views change God into something that is not God, or even a god. | | | Sure, we can say that a good and omnipotent God deals with evil by love, redemption, spiritual warefare, and many others. | | | But by addressing the possible cures for evil, we outright fail to address theodicy at all. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804205175?v=glance
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| | Actuality, Possibility, and Theodicy: A Response to Nelson Pike |
| | The theodicy is offered as a hypothesis, with this question: Does not this hypothesis do justice to and even illuminate the reality of evil while portraying a God who is believable and worthy of worship? | | | One of the claims I make is that traditional theodicy said, either explicitly or implicitly, that God has a monopoly on power. | | | Since Pike says yes, an approach to theodicy on the basis of his metaphysical position would have to be totally different from mine. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2516
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| | Does the Free-Will Defense Constitute a Sound Theodicy? |
| | Hence, it is the fault of humans that suffering exists and not of God. | | | Some modern Protestants, although acknowledging the overall doctrine of original sin, have a slightly different version which says that children up to an "age of accountability", albeit sinful, are guilt-free (see Robertson, 1987, pp. | | | A strong argument against the existence of the Christian god (henceforth referred to as God) is contained in the theodicy problem, which can be stated in the following manner: |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/niclas_berggren/theodicy.html
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| | Searching for a Theodicy of Intelligent Design |
| | If theologians could construct a good, orthodox theodicy with the mindset of "what if" concerning intelligent design, we could likely attract many more seekers who aren't ready to accept creationism but are ready to accept God as the Ultimate Reality of the universe, and more importantly, their Lord and savior. | | | Of course, if we return to orthodoxy, we cannot accept this view and therefore, the Irenaean Theodicy is left blaming God for the eternal torment of His creation. | | | We make claims that seem preposterous to those untouched by the Holy Spirit. |
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http://sakamuyo.net/community/index.php?topic=220.0
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| | UMPH - Review: Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy |
| | Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy, edited by Stephen T. Davis surveys the foundational points of view in the struggle to comprehend this most enigmatic mystery of God’s interaction with the order of creation. | | | I had to laugh at Frederick Sontag’s assertion that, “Given what has been written by the authors of this book—both about God’s views and their own—it seems to me that God needs a defense attorney.” If I have any criticism of Encountering Evil: Live Options in Theodicy it is that it seems incomplete. | | | This book is an excellent place to start (and has been for over twenty years). |
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http://www.umph.org/resources/publications/review.asp?review_id=49
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| | Theodicy and the Question of Suffering |
| | The philosophers and theologians call this the “problem of theodicy.” The term “theodicy” comes from the combination of two Greek words (viz., theos = God, and dike = justice) that literally mean the “justification of God.” The problem is often stated like this: “You say God is both omnipotent and perfectly good. | | | Of course, Bible believers must reject Hick's theodicy as incompatible with the truths taught in the Bible. | | | More specifically, how is our belief in the God of the Bible justified in view of all this suffering? |
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http://allanturner.com/ss10.html
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| | AskOxford: theodicy |
| | theodicies) the justification of God and divine providence in view of the existence of evil. |
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| | theodicy |
| | Most theodicies attempt to show that this dilemma is only apparent and that it is possible to affirm both that God is all-powerful and perfectly loving, despite the presence of real evil in the world. | | | Before we proceed, we must note that some Christian theologians refuse to accept the definition of the problem in these terms. | | | If we forego the goodness of God, it seems that God will not prevent or overcome evil. |
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/theodicy.htm
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| | Glossary: Theodicy |
| | Job's friends provide evidence for popular theodicies of ancient Israel, Adonai however refuses their efforts. | | | This page is part of the Hypertext Bible Commentary - Amos, if you have reached it as a standalone page, to view it in context, go to www.bible.gen.nz |
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http://www.bible.gen.nz/amos/glossary/theodicy.htm
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| | Essay or Coursework - The Irenaean theodicy - Questioning God. |
| | Essay or Coursework - The Irenaean theodicy - Questioning God. | | | Both the Irenaean and the Augustine theodicys mention about the Bible which therefore will be very difficult for a true religious believe to make a decision. | | | Coursework and Essays: By Level: A2 and A-Level: Physics: The Irenaean theodicy - Questioning God |
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http://www.coursework.info/i/38155.html
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| | EP06. Theodicy and Sociobiology |
| | Despite all the wisdom poured into theodicy, the questioning persists. | | | Then I will look at the origin of the passion over theodicy and why it matters so much. | | | John Hick states the theodicy question well: "If God is perfectly loving, God must wish to abolish all evil; and if God is all-powerful, God must be able to abolish all evil. |
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http://www.ksharpe.com/Word/EP06.htm
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| | SUNY Press :: Beyond Theodicy |
| | The questions surrounding the legitimacy of theoretical theodicy as done by theologians do have some European analogues, but this book makes this much more explicit. | | | In response to the Holocaust, striking parallels have emerged between major Jewish and Christian thinkers centering on practical faith approaches that offer meaning within suffering. | | | Explores the work of post-Holocaust Jewish and Christian thinkers who reject theodicy—arguments explaining why a loving God can permit evil and suffering in the world. |
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http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60647
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| | - Prometheus: Theodicy Archives |
| | This mostly left natural disasters for the growing realm of science: if they couldn't be prevented, at least their origins could be understood. | | | Earthquakes and floods could no longer be fitted into traditional religious theodicies. | | | Actually, in some respects, this theodicy has gone even beyond the political: just as a religious theodicy might have shown natural catastrophe to be the result of human misdeed, many of the early commentators about the flood did the same, creating a kind of scientific/moral theodicy in which human sin is still a dominant factor. |
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http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/disasters/000562theodicy.html
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| | Theodicy |
| | It's no secret that there are many Americans, especially Christians, who do not view the neo-Darwinian model of "evolution" as being a valid representation of the "origin of species." | | | posted by theodicy @ 10:58 AM 0 comments | | | posted by theodicy @ 1:09 AM 2 comments |
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| | Theodicy |
| | If even an Infinite Intelligence with good intentions cannot make a better world than this, then those factors in the nature of things more ultimate than God (those primordial possibilities and necessities) that make it so have a mean streak. | | | Moreover, I insist that we must be open to reconstructing the traditional understanding God. | | | It is always surprising to me that theologians and preachers seem to know so much about God, the meaning of life, sin, grace, salvation, the nature of the Trinity, the divine and human natures of Jesus, and so on. |
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/theodicy2.htm
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| | Theodicy Filmography |
| | A "theodicy" traditionally wrestles with the issues of a "Good God", that is a benevolent divine realm, in world riddled with evil and injustice. | | | Theodicy in The Fisher King by Grace Miranda, 2003, Jun 13 |
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http://hyper.vcsun.org/HyperNews/rcummings/get/dna03/theodicy.html
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| | Glossary: The general concept of "theodicy" |
| | As we shall see, Pope's theodicy departs in important ways from traditional Christian theodicies. | | | And justify the ways of God to men. | | | The job of theodicy is to demonstrate the justice of God in ordaining or allowing the existence of moral and physical evil. |
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http://www.ksu.edu/english/baker/english233/g-theodicy0.htm
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| | theodicy - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | THEODICY : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] | | | theodicy : Worthless Word For The Day [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "theodicy" is defined. |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=theodicy&ls=a
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| | Leibniz: Theodicy (The Problem of Evil) |
| | A vindication of God's justice in the face of evil is called a theodicy. | | | The evidential problem of evil is the atheist's attempt to show that it is irrational to believe in God due to the evidence of evil (rather than a logical contradiction between God and evil). | | | Leibniz's theodicy was constructed to combat a logical problem of evil (i.e., a problem of evil that shows God logically incompatible with evil); and it indeed works according to the general consensus. |
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http://www.angelhaunt.net/leibniz/theodicy.html
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| | Theodicy responses |
| | Earlier this week on the blog many readers participated in a discussion of theodicy -- what the presence of evil in the world says about God. | | | And, as one person wrote and many echoed, "who's to say when and how God has intervened on some global or personal scale? | | | But this evil is also leading to some good, as more people realize the cruelty of giving her husband the right to a dead wife. |
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http://www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/013433.html
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| | R. M. Adams's Theodicy of Grace |
| | There is an initial problem as to which free persons are the recipients of God's grace qua originating rather than just sustaining creator. | | | Since, pace the versions of the FWD and FWT that are based on God having middle knowledge, they are not free since God exercises a freedom-canceling control over them, they cannot take "the fall" for the evils that result from their intentional actions. | | | This makes availble (sic) to God the morally exonerating excuse for permitting moral evil of unavoidable ignorance. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_gale/theodicy.html
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| | Theodicy |
| | The question whether God exists or not is reopen. | | | Ivan does not accept theodicy both in view of so many evils and in general; for him it is a mechanism of rationalization that cannot be morally justified. |
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http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/karam.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: theodicy |
| | Imagine yourself as a citizen in such a wicked country where men haughtily scorn God by their public wicked actions. | | | Channel 4 are showing a programme on the issue of theodicy on Christmas Day entitled 'Tsunami: Where was God?' It's on at 19:50 UK time and should be... | | | Posts tagged Theodicy per day for the last 30 days. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/theodicy
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| | $64,000 question... |
| | And part of the reason for this absence is quite simple: it is just another version of the Problem of Evil, which has, in its traditional and logical form, been all but discarded by most philosophers as a technically sound (and therefore, sustainable or maintainable) argument against the existence of the traditional God. | | | As I mentioned in Part One, I cannot move from 'ignorance of the motive' to 'judging an unknown motive' with any level of credibility. | | | Many of our problems with theodicy arise because of a mismatch between our creaturely moral notions and those allegedly reflected in what we think God is doing or has done, and so let's try to create a commonly-agreed-upon "starter morality". |
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http://www.christian-thinktank.com/gr5part1.html
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| | GOOD & EVIL (THEODICY) 1 |
| | As long as Faith is available, there is no point in dealing with the question. | | | Of higher elevation than the "Everest Question" of Theodicy]: theological tenets include that God is all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful; that all his children are provided free will and are personally responsible for deeds done; and that he has readily available to those who unrepentently violate his directives a true, horrid, and eternal suffering. | | | Okay, here's an Everest of a question: Called ordinarily The Problem of Evil and technically Theodicy, it matters not only to those want to argue theism vs. athiesm (Surely an omnipotent, loving God would not permit evil and suffering, yet evil and suffering exist - quite a theologicial and philosophical brain-burner)... |
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http://home1.gte.net/trcbmc/id26.html
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| | Theodicy and Animals |
| | I discuss some aspects of Hick’s theodicy with respect to animals in “Harrison and Hick on God and Animal Pain,” | | | Nevertheless, this approach does something that most of the other theodicies don’t: it recognizes animal pain as a very serious evil. | | | The denial would render theodicy superfluous, and while it remains logically possible that animals (as well as other humans) are not conscious of their pains, it is hardly plausible. |
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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jlynch/Lynch_Theodicy.html
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| | personal trainer: A Theodicy Proposed |
| | Posted by jon trainer at 11:41 AM in Current Affairs, theology | | | Such undeserved evil is morally necessary to bring the existence of God as a God of goodness into doubt and sever any necessary connection between righteousness and reward. | | | It was written by a Anglican Canadian criminal defense lawyer who argues the Book of Job presents a Hegelian theodicy, where God is causally responsible for the undeserved evil that befalls Job (and by implication us), but not morally blameworthy for it. |
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http://getnewhope.blogs.com/personal_trainer/2005/01/a_theodicy_prop.html
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