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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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Theodicies as Failures of Recognition [PDF]

Religions, 2017
This paper examines the ethical failure of theodicies by integrating the perspectives of philosophical argumentation and literary reading and analysis. The paper consists of two main parts. In the first part, we propose an ethical critique of metaphysical realism by analyzing its inability to recognize the perspectival plurality and diversity of ...
Kivistö, Sari, Pihlström, Sami
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Agency Experience and the Limitations of Non‐Contrastive Transcendence

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-612, October 2025.
Abstract This essay argues that although the principle of non‐contrastive transcendence (NCT) is persuasive on its own terms, there are theologically important dimensions of the relationship between divine and human agency that are not captured by an interpretive framework governed by NCT alone. Agency is not just a philosophical category; it is also a
Simeon Zahl
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Dialogues on the Issues of Theodicy in Late Ming Fujian

Religions
This paper aims to illustrate the dialogues on the issues of theodicy in late Ming Fujian. The Catholicism that entered China in the late Ming dynasty had a competitive relationship with indigenous religions in terms of their meaning systems. Catholicism
Qinghe Xiao
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Die teodiseevraag: 'n Antwoord vanuit 'n pastorale perspektief

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1998
The problem of theodicy: An answer from a pastoral perspective. A fundamental aspect of the problem of theodicy is the experience of God's action as at times unfair, a perception at home espedally in  a situation of human suffering.
Petri de Kock, J. H. Koekemoer
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010

History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.
ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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Rethinking responsibility: An Abhidharma Buddhist view

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 549-570, September 2025.
Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the ...
Monima Chadha
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CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE'S COMPOUND THEODICY: PARALLEL SEARCHINGS

Zygon, 2018
Christopher Southgate proposes that a theological response to the suffering that is built into an evolutionary world requires a compound evolutionary theodicy, made up of four interrelated theological positions. This article proposes a fourfold response
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