Second-personal theodicy: coming to know why God permits suffering by coming to know God himself
The popularity of theodicy over the past several decades has given rise to a countermovement, “anti-theodicy”, which admonishes attempts at theodicy for various reasons. This paper examines one prominent anti-theodical objection: that it is hubristic, and attempts to form an approach to theodicy whi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 3, Pages: 287-305 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Stump, Eleonore 1947-, Wandering in darkness
/ Evil
/ God
/ Kenntnis
/ Theodicy
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Occupation
B Narrative B Theodicy B Wright B problem of evil B Non-propositional B Stump |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | The popularity of theodicy over the past several decades has given rise to a countermovement, “anti-theodicy”, which admonishes attempts at theodicy for various reasons. This paper examines one prominent anti-theodical objection: that it is hubristic, and attempts to form an approach to theodicy which evades this objection. To do so I draw from the work of Eleonore Stump, who provides a framework by which we can glean second-personal knowledge of God. From this knowledge, I argue that we can derive a theodicy which does not utilise the kind of analytic theorising anti-theodicists accuse of intellectual hubris. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-020-09763-x |