Evil and Suffering Keywords.

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D M U X A G K T Q K K C A X L L N F M F S
O O W K A B Y J O O S R L W R X H C G O I
Y N P E G A R J D E N C G S H T L M C G P
C I M M E N S E S U F F E R I N G P O L I
I Q X D C K W E S F Y I B R R A N G E S A
D I G R K P R O B L E M O F E V I L N Y Q
O P H Y S I C A L E V I L J C E D W I D F
E A I N C O N S I S T E N T T R I A D R R
H N H S V F R E E W I L L D E F E N C E B
T Q V E P I S T E M I C D I S T A N C E I
N V Q N A N I M A L S U F F E R I N G N X
A D O S E M I N A L P R E S E N C E U L L
E P G R X R M T C Q P W S N I S I T A C L
A X K O X A N R V J E J G F X W N J V K D
N H Y F T U X A C J D R W Y D P H O X O U
E H Q U P A U S P T C N D I M R V Y G V I
R L H M B C Y G P P T P J J X Y Q L E D M
I A U G U S T I N I A N T H E O D I C Y T
W Q F Y D F W L T A J L J L S W P N S K N
O M W X X P U V Y V P L C F E Y H J K T C
Y I U Y B D L V S W L S R U M J S W P C G

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  • A distance of knowledge. A phrase used by john Hick in his development of Irenaeus' theodicy to refer to the distance of knowledge between God and humankind (9, 8)
  • An Augustinian reference to the idea that, biologically, the whole human race was present "within Adam's loin" (7, 8)
  • Argument based on ideas that evil is caused by created beings, not God, and that God is justified in permitting evil to occur (11, 8)
  • argument based on ideas that human beings were not created perferct and remain imperfect and that evil is necessary to permit human freedom of choice (8, 8)
  • Attempt to reconcile the reality of evil with the existence of God by arguing for the necessity of evil in order to enable full and genuine human freedom (4, 4, 7)
  • Huge magnitude of scale; can also refer to intensity (7, 9)
  • Part of natural world, lives and moves but, in this context, refers to non-human (6, 9)
  • Suffering which is brought about via the physical world (8, 4)
  • The idea proposes that God cannot be both omnibenevolent and omniscient and allow evil to exist (12, 5)
  • The philosophical notion that evil should not exist if God possesses the characteristics traditionaly ascribed to him (7, 2, 4)

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