Panentheisms, Creation and Evil

Can panentheism cope with the problem of evil? This problem is often understood as one for classical theists, who maintain that the cosmos, together with its evils, was created by an all-powerful and benevolent God. For classical theists need to reconcile the world’s evils with divine creation. But...

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Главный автор: Attfield, Robin 1931- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: De Gruyter 2019
В: Open theology
Год: 2019, Том: 5, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 166-181
Другие ключевые слова:B Christopher Southgate
B Strict Panentheism
B Natural Evil
B Creation
B Bethany N. Sollereder
B Jürgen Moltmann
B Panentheism
B Moral Evil
B Contingency
B Arthur Peacocke
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Итог:Can panentheism cope with the problem of evil? This problem is often understood as one for classical theists, who maintain that the cosmos, together with its evils, was created by an all-powerful and benevolent God. For classical theists need to reconcile the world’s evils with divine creation. But corresponding problems re-emerge for theologies of both pantheistic and panentheistic kinds. Thus a problem arises for panentheists, with their teachings about a close relation between God and the cosmos. The closer the relation, the more intense the problem. Thus panentheists who regard the world as necessary to or part of God must hold that its evils are likewise necessary to or part of God. I explore in this paper whether panentheism can overcome the corresponding problem. This exploration involves sifting different varieties of panentheism. While for some varieties the problem is insoluble, this turns out to be less so for others, which retain central features of classical theism, while stressing interaction between God and the created world. In particular, grounds will be offered for holding that the version of panentheism put forward by Jürgen Moltmann and by Arthur Peacocke is defensible and can overcome this problem.
ISSN:2300-6579
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Open theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/opth-2019-0012