one might say that a Paleyian theodicy was replaced by a Darwinian biodicy
sometimes it is necessary to make a new word to express an idea (see also: Thought for Food)
Showing posts with label philodicy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philodicy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Thursday, December 26, 2013
philodicy, philodicer
if "theodicy" (Leibnitz, 1710) was conceived (and is still used) to express an attempt to reconcile a kind of (humanly-understood) justice in the best created world of a believed, ideal(ized) "God" with the realities of evil(s) -- of three types, or more or less -- then philodicy could be a seeking of that justice (dike), just as a philosopher seeks wisdom and a philomath learning.
and as we now already for many decades can hardly seriously maintain such a confidence in competence to write of divine omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence,...as did Leibnitz, et al, it is more realistic to conceive of a seeking to understand the idea of a justice of God.
hence also "philodicer"
and as we now already for many decades can hardly seriously maintain such a confidence in competence to write of divine omniscience, omnipotence, omnibenevolence,...as did Leibnitz, et al, it is more realistic to conceive of a seeking to understand the idea of a justice of God.
hence also "philodicer"
Labels:
philodicer,
philodicy,
philomath
Location:
Moscow, Russia
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Justice in God, Man, Nature, Cosmos?
theodicy
anthropodicy
physiodicy
cosmodicy
Read from theologian J. Matthew Ashley: "In classical terms, this is to broach the
problem of theodicy: how to think about God in the face of the presence of
suffering in God's creation. After God's dethronement as the subject of
history, the question rebounds to the new subject of history: the human being.
As a consequence, theodicy becomes anthropodicy — justifications of our faith
in humanity as the subject of history, in the face of the suffering that is so
inextricably woven into the history that humanity makes. Mutatis mutandis, the
universe story brings with it the need for a "cosmodicy." How do we
think about the presence of suffering, on a massive scale, in the story of the
cosmos, particularly when the cosmos itself is understood to be the subject of
history? How do we justify our faith in the cosmos?
-- J. Matthew Ashley, "Reading the universe story
theologically: the contribution of a biblical narrative imagination",
Theological Studies, 2010, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 870-902
Labels:
anthropodicy,
biodicy,
cosmodicy,
philodicy,
physiodicy,
theodicy
Location:
Moscow, Russia
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