Theodicy criticisms
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- Created on: 25-04-15 17:19
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- The problem of evil criticisms
- Irenaeus's theodicy
- John hick- suffering will be compensated
- Swinburne- everything has a greater good and sometimes the good is free will. Victims will be compensated in heaven
- Basil Mitchel- Jesus died to take away our sin, so we can go to heaven which is supported by eschatological justice
- The concept of human progressively improving fits in with evolution
- "Suffering is good for you" seems unjust, especially for the innocent
- Hume- "could we not learn through pleasure as well as pain"
- Swinburne- suffering is limited by our own capacity to feel pain and our lifespan
- Augustine's theodicy
- Explains evil in a way that does not compromise God of western Theism
- It makes some sense in that much of the evil is the responsibility of mankind
- Has theological coherence, fits overarching narrative. Creation-fall-redemption
- Darwin- evolutionary development
- Schleiermacher- how can a world which is perfect to wrong?
- Is evil really a privation?
- If everything depends on God for its existence, then God is still causally connected with human action
- Hick's theodicy
- Peter Vardy- goodness through free choice is much more superior than forced goodness. Analogy of the king and the peasant girl
- There is an epistemically distance between us and God because we have no empirical evidence of Him and if we did, we would not be truly free
- No empirical evidence of God could mean that God doesn't exist rather than there being an epistemically distance
- If everyone will reach heaven, what is the point of trying to be good in this life? No morel incentive
- Surely if God is omnipotent, He could create a perfect world where we were all free but still chose goodness
- Irenaeus's theodicy
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