Southgate's Compound Only-Way Evolutionary Theodicy: Deep Appreciation and Further Directions
Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a compound evolutionary theodicy. Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for further...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2018]
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Zygon
Jahr: 2018, Band: 53, Heft: 3, Seiten: 711-726 |
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Southgate, Christopher 1953-
/ Theodizee
/ Evolutionsbiologie
/ Eschatologie
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus CF Christentum und Wissenschaft NBC Gotteslehre |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
eschatology and cosmology
B cosmic theodicy B compound evolutionary theodicy B co-suffering argument B ambiguous goodness of creation B only way argument B thermodynamics and evolutionary biology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a compound evolutionary theodicy. Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for further development, with an emphasis on the ambiguity in the goodness of creation; the role of thermodynamics in evolutionary biology; the challenge of horrendous evil in nature; and the theological response to theodicy in terms of eschatology, with its own severe challenge from cosmology. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12438 |