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On October 29, 2015, the Chinese Communist Party ended its one-child policy. For thirty-six years that policy had been the planet’s most aggressive, longest-running campaign against overpopulation. It...
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The preceding articles in the special section, “Atheodicy and the Impossibility of God,” share a hidden subtext. In addition, at least by implication, they evoke a question of great importance for...
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In this article, I want to push past the question of what can be said about God in light of moral evil in the world (that is, theodicy). Instead, I want to call attention to the need to address moral...
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Notwithstanding that the history of Christianity has been a relentless assault on rationality, Christian “theodicy” has been a tirel ess effort to provide a rational defense of the goodness of God in...
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Auschwitz and Evil: My Experience Growing Up as the Son of a Survivor
The lifelong trauma my mother suffered from her Auschwitz experiences began to impact me at an early age. It was the initial impetus for my questioning the existence of an all-good, all-powerful, and...
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I’ve recently had the privilege of revisiting an anthology of autobiographical essays written by several prominent conservative Christian philosophers titled Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual...
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I first became interested in the problem of evil (POE) after the death of my good friend and mentor Peter Hare. I was asked to write a chapter for an issu e of the Transactions of the Charles Peirce...
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The problem of evil is perhaps the best-known objection to standard monotheism, which is to say belief in God defined as omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Theodicy Riddle?
This light and darkness in our chaos join’d What shall divide? The God within the mind. Extremes in nature equal ends produce, In man they join to some mysterious use; Though each by turns the...
View ArticleIntroduction
A special feature section coedited by Anthony Pinn, Judy Walker, and Tom Flynn. Theodicy is defined by Merriam-Webster as the “defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of...
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