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What Can Theology Offer Psychology? Some Considerations in the Context of Depression

Journal of Moral Theology, 2020
This paper explores what recent theological debates about human suffering might afford psychology as it continues to engage realities of suffering, especially persistent depression.
Jessica Coblentz
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"Anatheism" within the framework of theodicy: from theistic thinking to thepaschitic thinking in a pastoral hermeneutics

Acta Theologica, 2016
The Syrian and refugee crises, the violent radicalisation in Europe, and global xenophobia stir up anew the link between the human quest for meaning and hope within the realm of human misery and destructive acts of severe evil.
D. J. Louw
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]

, 2019
In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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Theological themes in Ricardo’s papers and correspondence [PDF]

, 2017
I review evidence from published and unpublished sources on Ricardo’s theological ideas. The main focuses of interest are the existence of a natural morality independent of religious confessions, morality as the essence of religion, useless of ...
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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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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The Reconstruction of Christian Theodicy in Taras Shevchenko’s Poetry

Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, 2019
This article focuses on the role of Christian theodicy in Taras Shevchenko’s works. With a biography marked by trauma and suffering, it is no wonder that Shevchenko orients his poetic worldview in search of understanding the nature of evil and human ...
Olha Bihun
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Collective and individual rationality: Robert Malthus’s heterodox theodicy [PDF]

, 2003
This paper forms part of a research project investigating conceptions of the relationship between micro-level self-seeking agent behaviour and the desirability or otherwise of the resulting macro-level social outcomes in the history of economics.
Denis, A.
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Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt [PDF]

, 2020
Samuel Lebens and Tyron Goldschmidt provided original theodicies, which suggest that at one time God will change the past, either by erasing/substituting the sins of humans or erasing the whole entirety of evils.
Faul, Bogdan
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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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Pursuing Pankalia: The Aesthetic Theodicy of St. Augustine [PDF]

, 2016
This chapter summarizes Augustine’s often-neglected aesthetic theodicy that balances his metaphysical definitions of evil and human agency against the ultimately beautiful story Augustine sees God, as the author of all Creation, writing. First, Augustine’
Holdier, A. G.
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