Non Identity Theodicy

Author : Vince R. Vitale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198864226

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Non-identity Theodicy by Vince R. Vitale Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to the problem of evil revolve around abstract discussions of greater goods, maximization of value, and best possible worlds, depicting God as at best an impartial bureaucrat and at worst a utility fanatic, rather than as a loving parent concerned first and foremost for his children. Vince R. Vitale develops Non-Identity Theodicy as an original response to the problem of evil. He begins by recognizing that horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in God. The book constructs an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrendous evils are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit or for harm avoidance. This framework is then brought to bear on the project of theodicy. The initial conclusions drawn impugn the dominant structural approach of depicting God as causing or permitting horrors in individual lives for the sake of some merely pure benefit. This approach is insensitive to relevant asymmetries in the justificatory demands made by horrendous and non-horrendous evil and in the justificatory work done by averting harm and bestowing pure benefit. Vitale then critiques theodicies that depict God as permitting or risking horrors in order to avert greater harm. The second half of this book develops a theodicy that falls outside of the proposed taxonomy. Non-Identity Theodicy suggests that God allows evil because it is a necessary condition of creating individual people whom he desires to love. This approach to theodicy is unique because the justifying good recommended is neither harm-aversion nor pure benefit. It is not a good that betters the lives of individual human persons--for they would not exist otherwise, but it is the individual human persons themselves.

Author : Vince R. Vitale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192609663

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Non-Identity Theodicy by Vince R. Vitale Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to "the problem of evil" revolve around abstract discussions of greater goods, maximization of value, and best possible worlds, depicting God as at best an impartial bureaucrat and at worst a utility fanatic, rather than as a loving parent concerned first and foremost for his children. Vince R. Vitale develops Non-Identity Theodicy as an original response to the problem of evil. He begins by recognizing that horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in God. The book constructs an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrendous evils are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit or for harm avoidance. This framework is then brought to bear on the project of theodicy. The initial conclusions drawn impugn the dominant structural approach of depicting God as causing or permitting horrors in individual lives for the sake of some merely pure benefit. This approach is insensitive to relevant asymmetries in the justificatory demands made by horrendous and non-horrendous evil and in the justificatory work done by averting harm and bestowing pure benefit. Vitale then critiques theodicies that depict God as permitting or risking horrors in order to avert greater harm. The second half of this book develops a theodicy that falls outside of the proposed taxonomy. Non-Identity Theodicy suggests that God allows evil because it is a necessary condition of creating individual people whom he desires to love. This approach to theodicy is unique because the justifying good recommended is neither harm-aversion nor pure benefit. It is not a good that betters the lives of individual human persons—for they would not exist otherwise, but it is the individual human persons themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493406586

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Finding Ourselves after Darwin by Anonim Pdf

A multinational team of scholars focuses on the interface between Christian doctrine and evolutionary scientific research, exploring the theological consequences for the doctrines of original sin, the image of God, and the problem of evil. Moving past the misperception that science and faith are irreconcilable, the book compares alternative models to those that have generated faith-science conflict and equips students, pastors, and anyone interested in origins to develop a critical and scientifically informed orthodox faith.

Author : Matthias Grebe,Johannes Grössl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567682451

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T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil by Matthias Grebe,Johannes Grössl Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil provides an extensive exploration of the theology of theodicy, asking questions such as should all instances of suffering necessarily be understood as evil? Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God allow or perpetrate evil? Is God unable or unwilling to reduce human and non-human suffering on Earth? Does humanity have the capacity to exercise a moral evaluation of God's motives and intentions? Conventional disciplinary boundaries have tended to separate theological approaches to these questions from philosophical ones. This volume aims to overcome these boundaries by including biblical (Part I), historical (Part II), doctrinal (Part III), philosophical (Part IV), and pastoral, interreligious perspectives and alternative intersections (Part V) on theodicy. Authors include thinkers from analytic and continental traditions, multiple Christian denominations and other religions, and both established and younger scholars, providing a full variety of approaches. What unites the essays is an attempt to answer these questions from the perspective of biblical testimony, historical scholarship, modern theological and philosophical thinking about the concept of God, non-Christian religions, science and the arts. The result is a combination of in-depth analysis and breadth of scope, making this a benchmark work for further studies in the theology of suffering and evil.

Author : Dennis Ngien
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532643347

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The Interface of Science, Theology, and Religion by Dennis Ngien Pdf

In celebration of Alister E. McGrath’s sixty-fifth birthday in 2018, this Festschrift aims to highlight him as a lauded scholar, who exemplifies an interface of science, theology, and religion. It comprises works by McGrath’s theological allies and colleagues from diverse ecclesial homes including Graham Ward, Oliver Crisp, Tony Lane, Sung Wook Chung, Randall Zachman, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Jonathan Wilson, Jeffrey P. Greenman, Robert Kolb, Sister Benedicta Ward, Michael Lloyd, Bethany Sollereder, and Patrick Franklin. Critical but appreciative is the posture with which these contributors engage the wide range of McGrath's own scholarly pursuits and publications. This volume, edited by Dennis Ngien, covers these themes that are central to the life and witness of the church: atonement, Christology, Trinity, eschatology, mission, Reformation, science, nature, culture, evangelism, and theodicy—there is much to ponder and reap here. Readers will join with the contributors and pay tribute to McGrath who has risen to a life of significance as a scientist turned theologian, professor, author, Christian apologist, and churchman.

Author : T. Dougherty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137443175

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The Problem of Animal Pain by T. Dougherty Pdf

Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animal suffering. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to their case.

Author : Philip Tallon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199778935

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The Poetics of Evil by Philip Tallon Pdf

What role do art and aesthetics play in unravelling the theological problem of evil? Philip Tallon constructs an aesthetic theodicy through a fascinating examination of Christian aesthetics, ranging from the writings of Augustine to contemporary philosophy.

Author : Désiré Mercier,Thomas Leo Parker,Stanislaus Anselm Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MSU:31293000999908

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Natural theology (theodicy), logic, ethics, history of philosophy by Désiré Mercier,Thomas Leo Parker,Stanislaus Anselm Parker Pdf

Author : Université catholique de Louvain (1835-1969). Institut supérieur de philosophie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025666566

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Natural theology (theodicy), logic, ethics, history of philosophy by Université catholique de Louvain (1835-1969). Institut supérieur de philosophie Pdf

Author : David Boonin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198866852

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The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People by David Boonin Pdf

David Boonin presents a new account of the non-identity problem: a puzzle about our obligations to people who do not yet exist. Our actions sometimes have an effect not only on the quality of life that people will enjoy in the future, but on which particular people will exist in the future to enjoy it. In cases where this is so, the combination of certain assumptions that most people seem to accept can yield conclusions that most people seem to reject. The non-identity problem has important implications both for ethical theory and for a number of topics in applied ethics, including controversial issues in bioethics, environmental ethics and disability ethics. It has been the subject of a great deal of discussion for nearly four decades, but this is the first book-length study devoted exclusively to its examination. Boonin begins by explaining what the problem is, why the problem matters, and what criteria a solution to the problem must satisfy in order to count as a successful one. He then provides a critical survey of the solutions to the problem that have thus far been proposed in the sizeable literature that the problem has generated and concludes by developing and defending an unorthodox alternative solution, one that differs fundamentally from virtually every other available approach.

Author : Désiré Mercier,Thomas Leo Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCR:31210006352023

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A Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy: Natural theology (theodicy), logic, ethics, history of philosophy by Désiré Mercier,Thomas Leo Parker Pdf

Author : Robert N. Fisher
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : AttitudetoDeath
ISBN : 9042011734

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Suffering, Death, and Identity by Robert N. Fisher Pdf

This book explores many of the issues that arise when we consider persons who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are nearing the end of life. Suffering provokes us into a journey toward discovering who we are and forces us to rethink many of the views we hold about ourselves.

Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198718642

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Leibniz by Maria Rosa Antognazza Pdf

This work considers who Leibniz was and introduces his overarching intellectual vision. It follows his pursuit of the systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences, to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an enlightened ruler, and his ultimate goal of the improvement of the human condition.

Author : Paul Weingartner
Publisher : Peter Lang D
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3631852274

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Theodicy - From a Logical Point of View by Paul Weingartner Pdf

The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent. This is shown first by unmasking many types of such claims as either logical fallacies or as presupposing false assumptions. Secondly the author formulates God's attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence and the existence of 10 types of evil in an axiomatic system. This contains the theorems about God's knowledge, will, causation and benevolence without leading to any inconsistency. It proves the compatibility between God's attributes of omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence with the fact of existence of evil. The author offers a consistency proof for the whole axiomatic system with the help of a model in which all axioms and theorems are satisfied.

Author : George Athas,Beth M. Stovell,Daniel Timmer,Colin M. Toffelmire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695369

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Theodicy and Hope in the Book of the Twelve by George Athas,Beth M. Stovell,Daniel Timmer,Colin M. Toffelmire Pdf

This volume explores the themes of theodicy and hope in both individual portions of the Twelve (books and sub-sections) and in the Book of the Twelve as a whole, as the contributors use a diversity of approaches to the text(s) with a particular interest in synchronic perspectives. While these essays regularly engage the mostly redactional scholarship surrounding the Book of Twelve, there is also an examination of various forms of literary analysis of final text forms, and engagement in descriptions of the thematic and theological perspectives of the individual books and of the collection as a whole. The synchronic work in these essays is thus in regular conversation with diachronic research, and as a general rule they take various conclusions of redactional research as a point of departure. The specific themes, theodicy and hope, are key ideas that have provided the opportunity for contributors to explore individual books or sub-sections within the Twelve, and the overarching development (in both historical and literary terms) and deployment of these themes in the collection.