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Religions, 2018 Emmanuel Levinas declares that we have reached the end of theodicy, but we have not reached the end of discussions and books and special issues on theodicy, and people continue to ask, and answer, the questions “Why?” and “Why me?” about their suffering.
Jennifer L. Geddes
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Does moral anti-theodicy beg the question?
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2023 Some philosophers of religion have argued that moral anti-theodicy begs the question. This paper evaluates the arguments from two such philosophers, writing a decade apart—Robert Mark Simpson, and Lauri Snellman.
Echazú, Gabriel, Echazú, Gabriel,
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Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy [PDF]
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2019 Avicenna’s Neoplatonic account of divine providence and theodicy was hugely influential on later philosophical and religious thought in the Islamic world.
Shihadeh, Ayman
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A Study of Nick Trakakis's Approach to Anti-Theodicy in Comparison with Meta-Theodicy and Critique of Theodicy [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 The problem of evil and theodicy are acknowledged as inherent parts of the philosophy of religion. But on the other hand, some are seeking a way to put an end to this issue.
Seyed Mahdi Sajadi
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Christian Theodicy: A Critique of William Gass’s Anti-Theology
Religions, 2022 This paper presents a justification for a Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil.
Dennis Lee Sansom
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Leibniz and the Anti-theodicy of Bayle
, 2016 Bayle was the great adversary of Leibniz’s theodicy, and it was only when faced with Bayle’s reprimands against every possible theological justification of evil that Leibniz completely developed his own theory.
BROGI, STEFANO
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Therapeutic Theodicy? Suffering, Struggle, and the Shift from the God’s-Eye View
Religions, 2018 From a theoretical standpoint, the problem of human suffering can be understood as one formulation of the classical problem of evil, which calls into question the compatibility of the existence of a perfect God with the extent to which human beings ...
Amber L. Griffioen
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Dialogues on the Issues of Theodicy in Late Ming Fujian
ReligionsThis paper aims to illustrate the dialogues on the issues of theodicy in late Ming Fujian. The Catholicism that entered China in the late Ming dynasty had a competitive relationship with indigenous religions in terms of their meaning systems. Catholicism
Qinghe Xiao
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Anti-Theodicy and Atheism in Albert Camus
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015 The existence of evil, in particular, the evil suffered by innocent victims, like children, has been one of the arguments given by Camus against the existence of a God considered to have the attributes of Goodness and Omnipotence.
Ángel Ramírez Medina
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The acknowledgement of transcendence: Anti-theodicy in Adorno and Levinas
Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2011 It is generally recognized that Adorno and Levinas should both be read as urging a rethinking of ethics in light of Auschwitz. This demand should be understood in terms of the acknowledgement of transcendence.
Carl B. Sachs
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