Suffering and Soul-Making in Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out

John Hick (1922-2012) was an extremely influential philosopher of religion who wrote ground-breaking essays in the areas of religious epistemology, religious pluralism, and the problem of evil. With specific reference to the latter, in his book Evil and the God of Love(1966), Hick devised what has c...

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Main Author: Manninen, Bertha Alvarez 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2016
In: The journal of religion and film
Year: 2016, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-26
Further subjects:B Redisney
B Resoul-making theodicy
B Reproblem of evil
B Reanimation
B pixar
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