Viva voce fight?

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UWTSD, (2009), PhD Viva for Theodicy and Practical Theology (2010).

The external reviewer from London complained (paraphrased) that I was not emotional and fired up enough during the Viva, also known as Viva Voce.

But after their verbal attacks, I then
supposedly livened up.

I replied that I did not think that a Viva was a fight.

But I thought to myself, if you two want a fight, you will get one, I have studied the problem of evil, theodicy, free will and determinism ten plus years more than either one of you fine scholars.

In the end, I was highly complimented for the Viva performance.The external reviewer admitted that I had significant philosophical knowledge, but more of this knowledge needed to be in the thesis. As I stated in the previous entry, I very much wanted to write a more philosophical thesis, but was advised otherwise. The final work has much more philosophical content.

PhD thesis

Systemization would be a task of systematic theology and philosophy of religion. Practical and empirical theology can provide opportunities to evaluate practically systematic theology and philosophy of religion in regard to the problem of evil. (2000)(2007)

I have studied Biblical Studies, theology and philosophy of religion for many years, and on a personal level philosophical theology has often had natural practical implications for me.

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FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books.

PATTON, JOHN (2000)(2007) ‘Modern Pastoral Theology in the United States’, in James Woodward and Stephen Pattison (eds.), The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.

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PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (1982) The Nature of Necessity, Oxford, Clarendon Press.

PLANTINGA, ALVIN C. (2000) Warranted Christian Belief, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 

WOODWARD, JAMES AND STEPHEN PATTISON (2000)(2007)(eds.), The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.