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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Theodicy"”.
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Theodicy
<p>The poems in this collection are, in a sense, experiments in the employment of voice, wordplay and mythopoetic structures. The purpose, in so much as this collection can be said to have a purpose, is to celebrate the alienation and absurdity common to modern day life by depicting and dramatizing …
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Malebranche's Theodicy for Natural Evils
My dissertation examines Malebranche’s theodicy for natural evils (i.e., Malebranche’s reconciliation of the existence of God with the existence of natural evils). In Chapter 1, entitled “The Conceptual Possibility of Natural Evils,” I explain how Malebranche conceives of certain natural things …
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Theodicy : a critique and a proposal
… explores possibilities that arise from regarding theodicy as the activity of descriptive understanding of Christian belief and practice as found in the classical theistic framework. First, any theodicy as an activity is analysed in terms of the role of philosophy, the place of epistemology, the …
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Narrative Theodicy with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Barth
… an alternative, constructive approach to theodicy that counters the primarily theoretical theodicies in the philosophy of religion and in some Christian theological thought. It is the contention of this thesis that theodicy done in this theoretical mode does more to harm than help actual …
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Jewish theodicy : reflections on the Holocaust and Zionism in rabbinical thought
Includes bibliographical references.
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Strengthening Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa Theodicy Through the Addition of Eschatological Hope
Alvin Plantinga’s O Felix Culpa theodicy posits that worlds with incarnation and atonement are of maximal value, inherently containing evil as a necessary condition. While Plantinga’s Free Will Defense has garnered extensive analysis, his theodicy remains underexplored. This dissertation presents O …
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Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society
… theology. Berger, by linking the function of a theodicy with that of making meaning, allows for theodicies to be conceived of in the broader context of making meaning in contemporary society. As such, a contemporary theodicy needs to include (indeed, it needs to be inclusive, rather than …
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'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate
… the existence of evil otherwise known as the theodicy debate. This becomes clear when analysed with Slavoj 'i–ek's concept of the fetish: the lie which enables one to live with an unendurable truth. The thesis is organised into six chapters. After setting Sterne's fiction in the context of …
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Ezekiel 5:5-17 and Theodicy: a Theological Investigation of the Character of God
… within its context. Chapter 6 investigates theodicy in Ezek 5:5-17 within its context. This chapter elucidates the implications that YHWH's retributive justice has on his character. Chapter 7 looks at the intratextual and intertextual relations Ezek 5:5-17 has with the rest of Ezekiel and …
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A Study of Warfare Theodicy in the Writings of Ellen G. White and Gregory A. Boyd
… As a result, this study explores the warfare theodicy, a Christian response to the problem of sin, suffering, and evil, which seems to have been neglected by scholars for a long time. The study focuses on the writings of Ellen G. White and Gregory A. Boyd, the two foremost detailed and …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
This dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical …
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A Hindu Perspective on Justice in a World of Suffering: A Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Response to the Problem of Evil
… exegetical writings in order to reconstruct his theodicy and develop my own theodicy (which builds on that of Prabhupāda) and illustrate its relevance for contemporary discourses within Anglophone philosophy of religion. More specifically, I discuss William Rowe’s evidential argument from evil …
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An evangelical discourse on God�s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd�s open theism
… makes a contribution to the discourse on the theodicy problem by examining the position adopted by Gregory Boyd known as open theism. Boyd would argue that an open view of God is in a better position to deal with the problem of evil because the traditional understanding of God�s attributes …
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Trauma at the Limit: Bearing Witness to the Impossible of Survivor Testimony
… that clinical psychology participates in theodicy by reducing the excess of traumatic suffering to the Law. Given that this accusation rests on a disturbance that breaks with the structures of intelligibility, we continue to explore the concept of the aporia as well as its deconstructive …
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Embracing Trauma in Theodrama: Embodying Christiformity
… the theological reflections of the problem of theodicy, encouraging the practice of pastoral theodicy.
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Revelation 6:9-11: An Exegesis of the Fifth Seal in the Light of the Problem of the Eschatological Delay
… proportions which, in turn, raises questions of theodicy.</p> <p>The purpose of this dissertation is to increase understanding of the fifth seal as a whole through a focused study of its delay motif in light of similar relevant occurrences in the Hebrew Bible.</p> <p>The “delay” approach is …
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The Letter of James and Middle Platonism: Tracing Early Christian Engagements with Greek Philosophy
… in the letter of James, including issues of theodicy, economics, and speech ethics, are developed using the ideas, language and logic of Greek philosophy. This matters because it provides new evidence for the widespread popularity of the Platonic tradition among Christians in the first/second …
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Mirroring God's world: a critique of John Hick's speculative theology
… reflections on six themes: religion, theology, theodicy, eschatology, Christology and theology of religions. It seeks to expose the faults and fissures, disruptions and distortions in Rick's texts. This explains the form of each chapter: a lengthy exposition and criticism of how Hick handles a …
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To Have Done with Forgiveness: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Politics of Immanence
… relation--culminate in a theory of a <em>theodicy of money</em>, which deploys an apparatus of forgiveness in order to obscure and displace the stakes and the site of the game of guilt and innocence. In short, to produce, by means of the Christian logic of forgiveness, a subject of …
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