Love Actually: A Theodicy Response to Suffering in Nature. In Dialogue with Francisco Ayala1

Autor:	Oliver Putz
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Dilemma Corollary History and Philosophy of Science Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject Theodicy Problem of evil Religious studies Creativity Epistemology media_common
Zdroj:	Theology and Science. 7:345-361
ISSN:	1474-6719 1474-6700
DOI:	10.1080/14746700903239502
Popis:	Suffering is an inevitable corollary of evolution and as such exacerbates the problem of evil in a world created by an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. Recent responses to this dilemma often emphasize cosmic creativity as an end that justifies the means. The present paper will review one example of such creativity defenses (Francisco Ayala's) and attempt an alternative theodic approach that seeks to incorporate creativity as a means rather than an end. For that, it will propose a radical turn to love, where suffering is seen as a necessary condition for the possibility of the full actualization of love.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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