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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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Calling on and thanking God: the role of faith and faith communities in disaster recovery. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract Faith and faith communities play a critical role in post‐disaster recovery for at least three reasons. First, faith is a socially shared frame through which individuals understand a disaster and evaluate potential means of recovery. Second, faith is a driver or motivator of post‐disaster recovery, providing inspiration, encouragement, and ...
Storr VH, Lofthouse JK, Storr NM.
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Parallax Theology: Reframing Compensation Theodicy

Religions, 2023
The reality of suffering and the existence of natural and moral evils appear to present significant obstacles to the doctrine of God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. Theodicy is an attempt to resolve the problem of evil.
Victor L. Shammas
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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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The Limits of Theodicy: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective on Evil and Interreligious Theology [PDF]

, 2016
This essay is written from the vantage point of a comparative theologian who is personally steeped in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and who primarily specializes in Christian-Muslim comparative theology.
Monge, Rico G.
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Hoe kan God dit toelaat? ’n Bibliologiese verryking van die teodiseevraagstuk uit ’n vergelyking tussen Openbaring en 4 Esra

In die Skriflig, 2011
How can God allow it? A bibliological enrichment of the theodicy issue from a comparison between the Book of Revelation and 4 Ezra In the process of understanding and defining the relationship between God and man, the theodicy issue frequently floats to
J.A. du Rand
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Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]

, 2010
Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
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Probabilistic theism and the problem of evil

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2017
I would like to present in the article an “omnipotence model of a theodicy of chance”, which is, as I believe, compatible with the view called probabilistic theism.
Dariusz Łukasiewicz
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Mystical Body Theodicy

Religions, 2018
In this paper I develop a new theodicy--Mystical Body Theodicy. This theodicy draws on the Christian doctrine of the mystical body of Christ to argue that some evil can be defeated by a set of three goods connected with increasing the unity of humanity ...
Joshua C. Thurow
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Editor\u27s Introduction [PDF]

, 2015
One of the oldest and most persistent challenges to faith in an all-good and all-powerful Creator is the reality of evil and suffering. This issue of the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies addresses the perennial issue of theodicy in a wide-ranging way ...
Malkovsky, Bradley
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