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Anti-theodicies – An Adornian approach [PDF]

Human Affairs, 2021
Abstract The question of why bad things happen (to good people) has puzzled individuals over generations and across different cultures. The most popular approach is to turn the issue into a question about God: Why does he allow bad things that lead to the suffering of often innocent bystanders?
Huhtala, Hanna-Maija
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Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy [PDF]

Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2019
Abstract Avicenna’s Neoplatonic account of divine providence and theodicy was hugely influential on later philosophical and religious thought in the Islamic world. However, it was severely criticised by one of his earlier commentators, the theologian-philosopher Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210).
Shihadeh, Ayman
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Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity: a case for pluriversality in practice. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract As climate change increases the probability and intensity of major disasters, urgent action is required to prepare for and address the underlying causes of disaster. The disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework was adopted to focus national and international attention on the social production of vulnerability to disaster risk, yet it faces ...
Watson SD.
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Theodicy and end-of-life care. [PDF]

J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care, 2013
Acknowledgments The section on Islamic perspective is contributed by information provided by Imranali Panjwani, Tutor in Theology & Religious Studies, King's College London.Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Dein S, Swinton J, Abbas SQ.
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In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism [PDF]

, 2011
I reply to seven objections to anthropomorphic theism: (1) That anthropomorphic theism is idolatrous. In reply I rely on the concept/conception distinction. (2) That faith requires certainty.
Forrest, Peter
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Beyond Bathsheba: Managing Ethical Climates Through Pragmatic Ethics [PDF]

, 2017
This paper explores the puzzling nature of leader behavior in order to understand the conditions that encourage unethical decision-making. Building on the extant literature of pragmatic ethics, I explore how leaders can increase the quality of ethical ...
Long, Joseph E.
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Pragmatist Perspectives on Theological and Religious Realism [PDF]

, 2014
This essay first applies the general issue of realism vs. antirealism to theology and the philosophy of religion, distinguishing between several different ”levels’ of the realism dispute in this context.
Pihlström, Sami
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Memory and History: The Overcoming of Traditional Theodicy in Levinas and Metz [PDF]

, 2019
Grappling with the marginalization of the marginal in Western thinking, this paper sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy and Johann Baptist Metz’s political theology in order to learn from their thoughts on the suffering of victims ...
Losada-Sierra, Manuel
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O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? Responses to the Problem of Suffering [PDF]

, 2023
In a world where human beings frequently face pain and suffering, the question of how to justify the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving God amidst the prevalence of evil continues to be a persistent debate within theological ...
Huff, Ashley Davis
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Theodicies as Failures of Recognition [PDF]

, 2017
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Kivistö, Sari Anneli, Pihlström, Sami Johannes   +1 more
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