Theodicy is what attempts to answer the question of why a God allows or permits suffering and evil in the world. Anti-theodicy opposes theodicy in which it refuses to consider the relationship between God and suffering and places all the experience of evil onto God. The theodicy in the world religion‚ Judaism‚ and what that tradition believes about theodicy‚ is to be examined. To understand theodicy in Judaism‚ firstly‚ the questioning of theodicy (especially after the Holocaust)‚ must be examined
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Religion (Theodicy) Paula—Doctrine of original sin The doctrine of Original sin—People would rather be guilty then helpless —In the end it’s all out fault —We all come from Adam and Eve(we deserve it) Theodicy—is a reasonable defense of god before the prevalence of evil (justification of god before evil) Problems a theodicy confronts 1.God is all good 2.God is all powerful 3.Whence Evil (Theodicy defends god) 2 kinds of theodicy “Best of all possible worlds” 3 qualities
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world are incompatible with God’s omnipotence and perfect goodness‚ the word"theodicy" is coined to deal with the problem of evil. Usually it is an attempt to show that it is possible to affirm the omnipotence of God‚ the love of God‚ and the reality of evil without contradiction. Two of the most well-known and most frequently discussed theodicies are the Augustinian theodicy and the Irenaean theodicy. The Augustinian theodicy was constructed by Saint Augustine (345-430 AD) and is the main traditional
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The Augustinian theodicy is a type of Christian theodicy designed to respond to the evidential problem of evil. As such‚ it attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (or all-powerful and perfectly loving) God amid evidence of evil in the world. A number of variations of this kind of theodicy have been proposed throughout history‚ but their similarities were first described by John Hick‚ who classified them as Augustinian. They typically assert that God is perfectly good
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The Augustinian Theodicy From Augustine in his booke ’Confessions’ in 397AD. His argument was that God is good and created a world perfectly good and free from defection‚ evil & suffering. Based on Genesis 1-3 ’Either God cannot abolish evil‚ or he will not. If he cannot‚ he is not all-powerful‚ if he will not he is not all-good.’ Augustine ’The believer must have‚ in a cool moment‚ a solution to the problem of evil. If he does not‚ his faith is not rational...’ Richard Swinburne The
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Explain Augustines Theodicy (25 marks) Augustines’s theodicy‚ which aims to decipher why there is evil in the world‚ is greatly influenced by the Bible’s creation stories‚ Genesis 1-3‚ which he took literally. Augustine believed‚ that God had made the world ex nihilo (out of nothing) and when making the world he had made it free from flaws. He believed very strongly that God is good‚ omnipotent and omniscience. As he had a traditional view of God it created a problem that he had to solve‚ if
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Theodicy is the discussion of theories over why God allows bad things happen to good people. Everyday people experience bad things. There are the natural evils of the world like illness‚ hurricanes‚ tsunamis‚ earthquakes. There are the evils humans commit against one another like murder‚ abuse‚ and all sorts of betrayals. Evil leads humans to question the power of God and even the existence of God. God is supposed to be powerful. He is supposed to help us. He is supposed to answer our prayers. People
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Theodicies‚ the attempts to explain the presence of both an all powerful‚ benevolent God and seemingly pointless suffering‚ have been formulated‚ challenged‚ and revised for millennia. Philosopher and theologian John Hick grouped these theodicies into two distinct types: Augustinian and Irenaean. Augustinian theodicies indicate that evil came into existence to punish man for its initial and purposeful sin in the Christian Garden of Eden. Therefore‚ all evil that exists exists to reprimand mankind
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Augustine’s Theodicy A theodicy is a philosophical study‚ which attempts to satisfy the problem of the existence of evil and suffering alongside the existence of the God of Classical Theism‚ a God who is omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent‚ and omniscient. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) tries to justify the righteousness of God; Augustine’s theodicy heavily refers and relates to key biblical passages. Therefore his theodicy is an attempt to solve the problem of suffering. Augustine uses the story of the
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Solving the seeming contradiction between a loving God and the reality of evil is usually referred to as a theodicy. A theodicy attempts to solve the apparent tensions in what is often termed the problem of evil. But the problem of evil is really a series of problems. Like many large problems‚ sometimes it is helpful to break them down into their components. Evil‚ you see‚ actually extends not only to the moral world but also to the natural world. When human beings do bad things to one another‚ this
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