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The problem of theodicy and the theology of the cross

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2007
Theodicy is the attempt to justify God’s righteousness and goodness amidst the experience of evil and suffering in the world. This article discusses Karl Barth’s Christological and Jürgen Moltmann’s eschatological approach to the problem of theodicy.
N. Vorster
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Befriending Job: Theodicy Amid the Ashes

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
What role should theodicy play in the face of loss and acute suffering? Should it keep its distance and remain respectfully silent or should it step forward to illuminate the opaque reality of evil, especially untimely death? In my article, I explore the
Scott Mark Stephen Murray
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Process-Panentheism and the “Only Way” Argument

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2022
Given panentheism, when trying to offer a plausible solution to the problem of evil, what is the most promising way forward? In this article, I argue that a panentheist who wants to answer the problem of evil by using the “only way” argument should ...
Langby Lina
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Non-Identity Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 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, Vince, Vitale, Vincent Raphael
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Anti-Theodicy

open access: yes, 2016
In this article, I outline the major themes of anti-theodicy'. Anti-theodicy is characterised as a reaction, as rejection, against traditional solutions to the problem of evil (called theodicies') and against the traditional formulations of the problem ...
Betenson, T.
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THE THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM WITH EVOLUTION

open access: yesZygon, 2021
This article explores hamartiological questions at the interface of evolutionary biology and theology. Such questions include the problem of evil, the possibility of a historical fall, and the meaning of human sinfulness in light of biology.
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A Brief Comparison Between Systematic Theodicy and The Qur’anic Theodicy

open access: yesULUM, 2022
One of the most debated problems in the history of philosophy is the problem of evil. Since classical times, philosophers have started to think about evil, a phenomenon that exists in the world and that almost everyone encounters.
Emrullah Kurt
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The problem of evil has vexed for centuries:
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