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, 2015 The paper discusses basic models of divine action and intervention. However, the most part of the article is dedicated to the question whether or not there are theistic reasons to stick to some sort of non-interventionism.
Schärtl, Thomas
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Umjetnost Riječi, 2021 This paper analyses the motif of “the naked person” in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s early work. Epic tales which belong to the so called “labour camp prose”, such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1959) and The Cancer Ward (1968), stand out in the ...
Natalia Kovtun, Natalya Klimovich
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Can God create humans with free will who never commit evil?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Can an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God create humans with free will without the capacity to commit evil? Scholars have taken opposite positions on the contentious problem.
Lee Pham Thai, Jerry Pillay
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Nestes Modes, ’Qua’ and the Incarnation [PDF]
, 2014 A nested mode ontology allows one to make sense of apparently contradictory Christological claims such as that Christ knows everything and there are some things Christ does not ...
Pruss, Alexander R.
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Divine exultation and agony in the face of evil, a creation theodicy of divine restraint
Acta Theologica, 2013 Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living.
R. Potgieter
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The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body [PDF]
, 2016 This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions of women.
Łowczanin, Agnieszka
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Narasimha, Lord of Transitions, Transformations, and Theater Festivals: God and Evil in Hindu Cosmology, Myth, and Practice [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of the divine depicted in Narasimha and the unique perspectives on God and evil offered by the myths of Narasimha, which is also subliminally represented within the religious practice and performance ...
Vemsani, Lavanya
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The Dignity of Human Life: Sketching Out an 'Equal Worth' Approach [PDF]
, 2020 The term “value of life” can refer to life’s intrinsic dignity: something nonincremental and time-unaffected in contrast to the fluctuating, incremental “value” of our lives, as they are longer or shorter and more or less flourishing.
Watt, Helen
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, 2017 Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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Pursuing Pankalia: The Aesthetic Theodicy of St. Augustine [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter summarizes Augustine’s often-neglected aesthetic theodicy that balances his metaphysical definitions of evil and human agency against the ultimately beautiful story Augustine sees God, as the author of all Creation, writing. First, Augustine’
Holdier, A. G.
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