Moving Ahead on Southgate's Compound Only-Way Evolutionary Theodicy
Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a "compound only-way evolutionary theodicy." Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for f...
| Altri titoli: | Engaging the Scholarship of Christopher Southgate |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Theology and science
Anno: 2019, Volume: 17, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 185-194 |
| Notazioni IxTheo: | AB Filosofia delle religioni CF Cristianesimo; scienza NBC Dio NBD Creazione NBE Antropologia |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
eschatology and cosmology
B cosmic theodicy B Evil B ambiguous goodness of creation B co-suffering B Evolutionary theodicy B thermodynamics and evolutionary biology |
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| Riepilogo: | Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a "compound only-way evolutionary theodicy." Here I summarize the arguments and offer critical reflections on them for further development, with an emphasis on the ambiguity in the goodness of creation; the role of thermodynamics in evolutionary biology; the challenge of horrendous evil in nature; and the theological response to theodicy in terms of eschatology, with its own severe challenge from cosmology. Using a text box, I suggest how the 6 arguments create a unique synthetic whole, and how the removal of any one of them would diminish the argument as a whole. I then suggest how Southgate's treatment of the key question, "Why not just heaven?" adds a crucial seventh argument to produce an even more splendid and promising whole. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1596251 |