The problem of evil permeates contemporary theodicy, raising the question how an omnipotent and benevolent God can allow its existence. Exploring this inquiry is inherently tied to investigating divine action, specifically interplay between time eternity within a temporary creation. In recent decades, Non-Interventionist Objective Divine Action (NIODA) project has endeavored present science-bac...

Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. Divine exultation and divine agony are viewed from the perspective of divinity, whose initial creation brought God pleasure and its fall an offence so deep that, though he considered its total destruction, God instead...

This is an essay in comparative ethics within the Platonist tradition. Although the primary focus is on Augustine’s account of rightly ordered love of neighbor in De vera religione, it analyzes Augustine’s account of the love of finite goods by comparing it with Plato’s grounding of the love of imperfect creatures within an ontological hierarchy in Symposium. Against the backdrop of the critiqu...

The free will defense attempts to show that the existence of God is logically compatible with the existence of evil, and it received its most sophisticated development in the work of Alvin Plantinga (1974). Many philosophers believe that Plantinga’s free will defense conclusively demonstrates the logical compatibility of God and evil. Philosophers such as W. Alston, R. Adams, and W. Rowe have w...

This essay explores the development of Tillich’s writings on relationship between divine providence and suffering, his approach to theodicy. First, I attend various stations early life earliest in genres. Here we see instrumental-pedagogical theodicies student days preaching give way an increased emphasis suffering God. However, unlike many twentieth century theologies Tillich retains a strong ...

This research aims to explore by offering theodicy as the basis for anthropocentric theology purify God of all bad images that occur creation God, and theological criticism theocentric view which positions with his absolute will do anything, including creating allowing environmental crises also opinion humans their free has led an crisis. The contradiction belief in Most Perfect Essence fact th...

This article analyzes the anthropocentric aspects of Russian Orthodox thought. It is noted that traditional self-consciousness inherited main religious and moral norms values Byzantium, such as contemplation, Hesychasm, careful preservation dogmatic ceremonial faith. The authors conclude central problem in thought human justification, understanding essence. Starting with theodicy, gradually tur...