THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Natural Evil, Theodicy, Moral Evil
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Theodicy- why would a good god allow evil/sufering. Providence- god is intending everything to be fulilled. Bringing all things to fulillment. free will defense (augusine 15th century) limit god"s power and goodness: ulimate goodness and power get negoiated in free will defense. Moral vs. natural evil- not so much w/ theodicy no good answer to the quesion of natural evil door of garden opened both. Moral evil is original sin person making theodicy (irenaeus)- problem of sufering that it is put here for our beneit (allows evil) we are perfecing ourselves and requires us to encounter evil, fullest potenial. Pracical approach liberaion theodicy- reality of evil- people of poverty, sick turn quesion back to the able. When we step in and work on behalf of god to help those who are poor and marginalized, we are in solidarity with god. Protest theodicy key moifs the silence of god (the problem of sufering) the face (image) of christ.
