RT Article
T1 Extinction, Natural Evil, and the Cosmic Cross
JF Zygon
VO 53
IS 3
SP 691
OP 710
A1 Peters, Ted 1941-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580886078
AB Did the God of the Bible create a Darwinian world in which violence and suffering (disvalue) are the means by which the good (value) is realized? This is Christopher Southgate's insightful and dramatic formulation of the theodicy problem. In addressing this problem, the Exeter theologian rightly invokes the Theology of the Cross in its second manifestation, that is, we learn from the cross of Jesus Christ that God is present to nonhuman as well as human victims of predation and extinction. God co-suffers with creatures in their despair, abandonment, physical suffering, and death. What I will add with more force than Southgate is this: the Easter resurrection is a prolepsis of the eschatological new creation, and it is God's new creation which retroactively determines past creation. Although this does not eliminate the theodicy question, it lessens its moral sting.
K1 Christopher Southgate
K1 Eschatology
K1 Natural Evil
K1 New Creation
K1 Theodicy
K1 Theology of the cross
DO 10.1111/zygo.12454