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Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity: a case for pluriversality in practice. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract 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]
DisastersAbstract 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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Bijdragen, 1991 Summary The problem of theodicy may be dealt with in many different ways. Contemporary theologians, for instance, especially put great emphasis upon God's compassion with suffering mankind, whilst rejecting such classical views that account for evil as a divine punishment for sin or as ultimately serving a good purpose.
Vermeer, P.A.D.M. +2 more
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Religious Views of Suffering Profile Groups during COVID-19
Religions, 2022 Religion plays an important role in making sense of adversity, and individuals hold varying beliefs about God’s role in suffering (theodicy). This study examined the association between individuals’ theodicies at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Kenneth T. Wang +4 more
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TEODISI ISLAM ESOTERIS: PEMIKIRAN ISA NUR AL-DIN AHMAD AL-SYAZILI TENTANG TUHAN DAN KEJAHATAN
Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society, 2018 Theodicy was born as a response to the problem of evil and its relationship to the power of God, and at the same time, as an assertion of Omnipotence, Omnibenevolence, and Omniscience of God.
Muhammad Nur Prabowo Setyabudi
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Innocent Suffering in Mesopotamia
Tyndale Bulletin, 2000 Recent discussion of Mesopotamian texts holds to the idea that theodicy is present in this literature. An examination of the material which takes into account the cultural and religious views prevalent at the time will call into question the validity of ...
Daniel P. Bricker
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Souls in the Dark: Theodicy and Domesticity in Home
Religions, 2017 Theodicy typically addresses the problem of evil in the public square, focusing on instances of paradigmatic evil that raise the issue broadly. Theodicy, however, also operates in the private sphere, where the conflict and chaos of family life raise ...
Mark S. M. Scott
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The Roads of the Others: E. Levinas and T. Adorno
Problemos, 2022 In this article, Levinas’ philosophy is interpreted as an ethical and Talmudic consideration of existential paths. After Auschwitz, the concept of otherness and the diversity of other faces presupposes a free and diverse “being on the road,” an ethics ...
Gintautas Mažeikis
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Epistemic Theodicy, Epistemic Evil, and Epistemic Responsibility
Religions, 2023 The paper explores the concept of epistemic theodicy and strengthens an argument that reconciles human fallibility with the existence of an all-powerful and benevolent God.
Vojko Strahovnik
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Studia Ceranea, 2014 The article engages with the philosophical and theological notion of theodicy as formulated by Kalin Yanakiev in Дебат върху теодицеята (A Debate on Theodicy), an essay which appeared in Yanakiev’s book Философски опити върху самотата и надеждата ...
Grażyna Szwat-Gyłybowa, Piotr Szymczak
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