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ON SOCIAL EVIL AND NATURAL EVIL: IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE [PDF]

Zygon, 2018
In this contribution, the author engages in a conversation with Christopher Southgate on the relationship between social evil and what is called natural “evil.” Theologically, this centers around an understanding of creation and fall.
Ernst M Conradie
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Natural evil: the simulation solution [PDF]

Religious Studies, 2018
That natural evils are plentiful in our world is impossible (plausibly) to deny. Why would a benevolent and all-powerful God allow such an obviously imperfect world to be created?
B. Dainton
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Covid 19 Natural Evil / Human Evil: A Philosophical Investigation

Predestinasi, 2021
This paper sought to find out whether COVID 19 is as a result of natural evil, human evil or both. The researchers adopt an expository method in carrying out this work. Viruses have been around in the world long as life itself.
Anselm Ikenna Odo
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PERCEIVING NATURAL EVIL THROUGH THE LENS OF DIVINE GLORY? A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE

Zygon, 2018
Finding a way to come to terms with the disvalues in the evolutionary world is a particular challenge in the light of Neo‐Darwinian theories. In this article I trace the shift in Christopher Southgate's work from a focus on theodicy to a theologian of ...
C. Deane-Drummond
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EXTINCTION, NATURAL EVIL, AND THE COSMIC CROSS

Zygon, 2018
Did the God of the Bible create a Darwinian world in which violence and suffering (disvalue) are the means by which the good (value) is realized? This is Christopher Southgate's insightful and dramatic formulation of the theodicy problem.
T. Peters
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On the Logical Argument From Natural Evil: A Response to Moore

Sophia
Dwayne Moore’s "A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil," (Moore, 2024) provides a detailed critique of my logical argument from evil against the existence of the God of traditional theism.
James P. Sterba
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Revisiting Natural Evil

Scientia et Fides
This paper revisits our understanding of natural evil and its related defences in the light of relatively new evidence in Complex Systems Science and Science and Technology Studies.Complex Systems Science shows unpredictability is a necessary feature of ...
Sara Lumbreras
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Natural goodness and natural evil

Ratio, 2006
AbstractIn Natural Goodness Philippa Foot gives an analysis of the concepts we use to describe the characteristics of living things. She suggests that we describe them in functional terms, and this allows us to judge organisms as good or defective depending on how well they perform their distinctive functions.
J. Millum
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The Status of Leibniz's Theodicy in Kant's Pre-Critical Thought [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023
Immanuel Kant has addressed the problem of evil in many of his works. The neglected part of Kant’s thought -especially among Muslim scholars- is his philosophical objections and defenses regarding the problem of evil in pre-critical and early critical ...
Zahra Farzanegan, Farah Ramin
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Membangun Penjelasan dan Sikap Etis Trinitarian terhadap Kejahatan Natural COVID-19

Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan, 2021
Building Trinitarian Explanations and Ethical Attitudes Towards COVID-19 as Natural Evil. COVID-19 is a natural evil, namely an evil caused by a natural process that is not functioning properly because of the fall of humans into sins. The existence of
Thio Christian Sulistio
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