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John Hick - The Problem of Evil

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  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...

Daniel Little: Confronting Evil in History (video abstract)

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Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου τού  Daniel Little , Confronting Evil in History , Cambridge University Press ( Elements in Historical Theory and Practice), Κέιμπριτζ – Νέα Υόρκη , 2022 [ 3΄ ] . Confronting Evil in History is a contribution to the philosophy of history , but it is a somewhat unusual contribution. The twentieth century witnessed the most sustained and devastating regimes of mass murder, enslavement, and degradation that the world has yet witnessed. The genocide of the Holocaust, the massive killing and degradation associated with Stalin’s war of starvation against the Ukrainian countryside (the Holodomor), and other instances of barbarous and state - initiated periods of atrocity during the century were enormous historical evils that must be confronted honestly and fully if humanity is to hope to avoid such catastrophes in the future. That is the premise of this Elements volume. The Element poses the question: how can humanity grow from confronting this history ...

The Problem of Evil: Ten Minutes with Michael L. Peterson

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Ο Δρ Michael L . Peterson είναι καθηγητής Φιλοσοφίας στο Asbury Theological Seminary  [Εκκλησιαστική Ακαδημία ( Ευαγγελικού / Μεθοδιστικού   θεολογικού προσανατολισμού ) στην Κοινοπολιτεία του Κεντάκι των ΗΠΑ].