RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Jacob Neusner, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Chapter 6 the trilemma, theodicy, and the book of job. Dilemma with a third thing added to it. Trilemma in theodicies questions into the nature of god. Nature of god is at stake in these questions. * the trilemma is an unresolved paradox questioning the nature of god: theodicy. Question why suffering is in the world. Concerned with existence of evil in world theos = god"s (cid:498)dike(cid:499) = justice. Concerned with why god allows bad things to happen to good people. Theodicy is any religious attempt to explain suffering: webster"s (cid:498)theodicy seeks to justify god either in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil(cid:499) Maintain best attributes of god in the face of suffering and pain in the. Theodicy is the (cid:498)vindication of divine attributes, especially justice and holiness, in respect to the existence of evil(cid:499) Theodicy and suffering deal w nature of god and focus is to understand world why innocent ppl suffer.