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Τῇ  δεσποίνῃ μου  τῇ  αἰδεσιμωτάτῃ και θεοφιλεστάτῃ διακόνῳ Ὀλυμπιάδι , Ἰωάννης ἐπίσκοπος ἐν Κυρίῳ χαί ρειν . Sources chrétiennes , 13 , 105 - 115 . Ἐπιστολὴ Α΄  | Epistula ad Olympiadem   7 [ Patrologiae cursus completus , series graeca, 52, 549-555 ] Οἴαν γὰρ ἂν ζητήσω τῶν παρόντων κακῶν εἰκόνα, ἡττώμενος ὁ λόγος ἀναχωρεῖ. Ἀλλ' ὅμως καὶ ταῦτα ἰδὼν οὐκ ἀπογινώσκω τῆς χρηστοτέρας ἐλπίδος, τὸν κυβερνήτην τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς ἐννοῶν, ὃς οὐ τέχνῃ περιγίνεται τοῦ χειμῶνος, ἀλλὰ νεύματι λύει τὴν ζάλην. Εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐκ προοιμίων, μηδὲ εὐθέως, ἔθος αὐτῷ τοιοῦτο, μὴ ἐν ἀρχῇ τὰ δεινὰ καταλύειν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν αὐξηθῇ, καὶ πρὸς τὸ τέλος ἔλθῃ, καὶ παρὰ τῶν πλειόνων ἀπογνωσθῇ, τότε θαυματουργεῖ καὶ παραδοξοποιεῖ, τὴν τε οἰκείαν ἐνδεικνύμενος δύναμιν, καὶ τῶν ἐμπιπτόντων τὴν ὑπομονὴν ἐγγυμνάζων. […] Πολλὰ πολλάκις καὶ ἤδη τοιαῦτα γέγονεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὕστερον τὴν προσήκουσαν ἔλαβε πάντα διόρθωσιν […]. Καὶ αἱμάτων ῥύακες ἐκ τῆς ὑποθέσεως ταύτης ἐγίνοντο, καὶ φόνοι ἄδικοι, καὶ σφαγαὶ, καὶ ἡ ἄωρος ...

  John Hick - The Problem of Evil  | Closer to Truth [ 7΄ ] Theists who believe in God and avoid the problem of evil delude themselves. If there is a God , evil is God’s hardest problem to explain. If there is no God, evil is the easiest evidence supporting a lack of God. Theologians have no tougher task than explaining evil’s enormity. They have devised clever, even profound, explanations and justifications. Do they pass the smell test? John Harwood Hick was an English philosopher of religion and theologian, who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career. In philosophical theology, he made contributions in the areas of theodicy , eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious pluralism. J ohn Hick & the Soul - Making Theodicy | The Problem of Evil | Untangle Philosophy | [ 8΄ ] Soul-Making from Suffering? John Hick ' s Irenaean Theodicy [ 13΄ ] Ο Παύλος Κόντο...