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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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Non-Identity Theodicy [PDF]

, 2017
I develop a theodicy (Non-Identity Theodicy) that begins with the recognition that we owe our existence to great and varied evils. I develop two versions of this theodicy, with the result that some version is available to the theist regardless of her ...
Vitale, Vincent Raphael
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Theodicy and Hope in the Book of the Twelve

, 2021
22-39For AODA accommodation, including help with reading this content, please contact repository@tyndale.cahttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/theodicy-and-hope-in-the-book-of-the ...
Ko, Grace, Grace Ko
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The poetics of evil : a study of the aesthetic theme in theodicy [PDF]

, 2009
This work proposes to look at the role of aesthetics within Christian theodicy. Though the recent theodicy literature has often displayed suspicion toward the inclusion of aesthetic criteria, I will argue that theological aesthetics can enrich the ...
Tallon, Philip
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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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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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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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THEODICY AND RATIONALIZATION

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., Vossen, H.J.M., Ven, J.A. van der   +2 more
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La teodicea come funzione sociale e l’età della secolarizzazione

Itinera, 2018
This paper analyses both the possibility of interpreting theodicy as provided with a social function and that of a secularized version of the theodicy itself, characterised by a remarkable continuity between its religious version and the secularized one.
Bernardo Paci
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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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