Divine Power, Friendship, and Theodicy
This article examines the kind of power available to a God worthy of worship, in connection with the prospect for a full theodicy for the world's suffering and evil. It portrays how such a God would seek to relate to people with uncoerced reconciliation to God as a gift having definite expectat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
[2020]
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Process studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-72 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Theodicy
/ Omnipotence
/ God
/ Character
/ Process theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | This article examines the kind of power available to a God worthy of worship, in connection with the prospect for a full theodicy for the world's suffering and evil. It portrays how such a God would seek to relate to people with uncoerced reconciliation to God as a gift having definite expectations of them. To that end, God would be elusive and hidden at times, including regarding ultimate purposes, to minimize the alienation of humans from God. We have no good reason to suppose that God would reveal divine purposes to humans in a way that gives them a full theodicy. Similarly, we have no good reason to acknowledge a certain kind of limitation in divine power over evil, but, given divine goodness, we would expect to have such a clear reason if God had such a limitation. The absence of the latter clear reason counts against a proposed full theodicy. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Does "Divine Hiddenness" Neutralize the Problem of Evil? (2020)"
Kritik in "Omnipotence Ruins Divine Friendship but Process Theology Saves It (2020)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/process20204913 |