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Untamed God or Reckless Risk-Taker? A Reply to Hasker\u27s Natural Order Theodicy [PDF]

, 2017
This paper argues that Molinism best rebuts the problem of natural evil when compared to the attempts of Open Theists, particularly William Hasker. The author begins by summarizing Hasker\u27s own Natural Order Theodicy, and subsequently critiques it. He
Justice, Nathan S
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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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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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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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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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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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Theology from a Fractured Vista: Susan Neiman’s \u3cem\u3eEvil in Modern Thought\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2007
Evil in Modern Thought, Susan Neiman\u27s account of the intellectual trajectory of modernity, employs the trope “homeless” to articulate deep difficulties that affirmations of divine transcendence and of human capacities to acknowledge transcendence ...
Rossi, Philip J.
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Contingency in Leibniz's Philosophical Theology

Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Trying to secure a source of contingency in Leibniz's philosophical theology has been a central concern for Leibniz scholars over the past century. This article examines some of the most promising strategies on offer, including the “per se” account, the “infinite analysis” account, and the “moral necessity” account.
Dylan Flint
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EXPLORING OLD AND NEW PATHS IN THEODICY

Zygon, 2018
Christopher Southgate's work raises questions about God, evolution, and suffering. In this article, I begin by contributing an alternative to Southgate's “only way” argument and by offering a third option in speculations about the nature of nonhuman ...
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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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