Soul-making and social progress
I argue that John Hick’s soul-making theodicy is committed to opposing social progress. By focusing on justifying the current amount and distribution of suffering and evil, Hick’s theodicy ends up having to condemn even positive change as undesirable. First, I give a brief outline of Hick’s theodicy...
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Springer Nature B. V
[2020]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-96 |
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Hick, John 1922-2012
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