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Tag Archives: theodicy
Suffering, Theodicy, and Apocatastasis
“What then, one might well ask, is divine providence?” David Bentley Hart poses this question after pondering upon the evil and suffering of the world in his beautiful little book The Doors of the Sea. Hart compares the orthodox Christian … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart
Tagged David Hart, determinism, evil, God, providence, suffering, theodicy, universal salvation
28 Comments
Dionysian Ponderings: The Parhypostatic Nullity of Evil
Ecstatic movement from the Good and Beautiful into the multiplicity of the good and beautiful, succeeded by joyful return to the Good and Beautiful. From God, in God, through God, to God. Abiding, procession, reversion; diffusion, illumination, union. Creation and … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysius the Areopagite
Tagged evil, God, human freedom, parhypostasis, privation, Pseudo-Dionysius, sin, theodicy
5 Comments
Suffering and Death: Elements of an Orthodox Theodicy
I was invited to take part with two other pastors in a panel discussion yesterday at Life Pacific College in Christiansburg, Virginia on the topic of suffering, evil, and God. We were each given 20 minutes for our initial presentations. … Continue reading
Ainulindalë: The Great Music and the Cacophony of Melkor
Eru teaches the Ainur his divine music and invites them to elaborate upon the theme, each according to his gifts and creativity. And so they sing, fashioning “the theme of Ilúvatar into a great music.” Their voices fill the halls … Continue reading
Posted in Inklings & Company
Tagged evil, Melkor, Morgoth, Satan, Silmarillion, theodicy, Tollkien
21 Comments
Julian of Norwich and the God who Delights to Die
“Sin is befitting, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well” (Revelations LT 27). On reading these words of Christ to Julian of Norwich we might be tempted to think that … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged atonement, Denys Turner, evil, God, Jesus Christ, love of God, sin, theodicy
Cross, Exsultet, and the Behoveliness of Sin
Dame Julian of Norwich presents us with antinomies which most of us (excepting hard-core Calvinists and traditional Thomists) would dismiss as metaphysical contradictions and moral nonsense: In his infinite power, God might have created a world in which all human … Continue reading
Posted in Julian of Norwich
Tagged divine sovereignty, evil, God, Julian of Norwich, original sin, providence, sin, theodicy
17 Comments
Creation, Theodicy, and the Problem of Evil
by Robert F. Fortuin This essay sets forth the claim that the absolute freedom of God’s act of creation informs the nature and meaning of evil. Because God created the universe without prior constraint or necessity, His moral nature and … Continue reading
Posted in Robert Fortuin
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, evil, God, Gregory of Nyssa, suffering, theodicy, universalism
109 Comments
