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Tag Archives: theodicy
Is God the Author of Sin?
Is God the author of sin? The question assumes paramount importance when evaluating the construal of divine and human agency advanced by Hugh J. McCann. Popular theodicies seek to protect God from responsibility for human evil. That’s the upshot of … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creation, divine sovereignty, eternal damnation, evil, free will, hell, human freedom, providence, sin, theodicy
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The Free-Will Defense and the Impossible Worlds of Molinism
The free-will defense of evil and suffering is a failure—so Hugh McCann contends. This verdict surprises, given the opinion of so many philosophers that Alvin Plantinga’s argument succeeds resoundingly. But it succeeds, maintains McCann, only because it abandons God’s providential … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends, Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged divine sovereignty, evil, free will, God, human freedom, middle knowledge, Molinism, providence, theodicy
5 Comments
C. S. Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, and the Free-Will Defense
Why did God create a world filled with evil and horrific violence? In the midst of World War II, C. S. Lewis offered what has become a classic Christian response: God created things which had free will. That means creatures which … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged Alvin Plantinga, C. S. Lewis, evil, free will, freedom, God, providence, theodicy
43 Comments
Seeking Theodicy: Sergius Bulgakov and the Apoktastasis
We seek theodicy. We seek justification for the suffering, privation, violence, futility, and death of this world. We desire assurance that this world is good and our Creator is good. We need hope that Christ will triumph over every evil … Continue reading
Posted in Eschatology, Sergius Bulgakov
Tagged apocatastasis, David Hart, deification, eternal damnation, hell, Sergius Bulgakov, theodicy, universal salvation
108 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 Gregory of Nyssa, Robert Fortuin
Tagged apocatastasis, creatio ex nihilo, evil, Gregory of Nyssa, theodicy
34 Comments
If God is going to deify everyone anyway, why not deify everyone immediately?
by David Bentley Hart Frankly, Al, I find the question very strange. In part, because its premise is an absolute banality: that life is a kind of contest, played within the arbitrary constraints of the clock, at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in David B. Hart, Eschatology
Tagged creation, David Hart, eschatology, evil, God, good, human being, sin, theodicy
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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